MAYWOOD : Sentenced to Death, Officer’s Killer Says, ‘I Deserve It’
A man sentenced to death Friday for the murder of a Maywood police officer and a Van Nuys grocery store clerk said he should be executed for his crimes.
“I deserve it,” Edgardo Sanchez Fuentes, 24, told Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Jacqueline A. Connor.
Connor sentenced Fuentes’ co-defendants, Benjamin Navarro, also known as Hector Reyna, 24, and Jose Contreras, 22, to life prison terms.
The three were convicted last October in the May 29, 1992, shooting death of Officer John Hoglund, a 16-year veteran who was the first Maywood officer to die in the line of duty.
Fuentes killed Hoglund when the 46-year-old officer arrived at a robbery in progress at George’s Market in Maywood.
Fuentes and Contreras also were convicted of the May 4, 1992, murder of clerk Lee Chul Kim. Contreras shot Kim to death during a robbery, police said.
A fourth man, Oscar Paredes, still faces charges in Hoglund’s death.
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