Tuesday marks the three-year anniversary of the shooting deaths of Palm Springs police officers Jose “Gil” Vega and Lesley Zerebny, who will be honored with a memorial ceremony at Palm Springs Police Department headquarters. The memorial ceremony will be held at 5 p.m. at Palm Springs police’s Memorial Plaza, which bears the names of Vega […]
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[bc_video video_id=”6050190186001″ account_id=”5728959025001″ player_id=”Hkbio1usDM” embed=”in-page” padding_top=”56%” autoplay=”” min_width=”0px” max_width=”640px” width=”100%” height=”100%”] Officers of the Palm Springs Police Department start and end their day in the locker room. Now this personal space has more meaning. “We never want to forget the sacrifices that they’ve made in the line of duty, i mean they’ve made the ultimate […]
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[bc_video video_id=”6040528134001″ account_id=”5728959025001″ player_id=”Hkbio1usDM” embed=”in-page” padding_top=”56%” autoplay=”” min_width=”0px” max_width=”640px” width=”100%” height=”100%”] “It’s like a wrecking ball went through our entire family, friends, everything,” says David Kling, the father of fallen Palm Springs Police Officer Lesley Zerebny outside of the Indio courtroom where he’s been nearly everyday for weeks during the trial and now penalty phase […]
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[bc_video video_id=”6034978161001″ account_id=”5728959025001″ player_id=”Hkbio1usDM” embed=”in-page” padding_top=”56%” autoplay=”” min_width=”0px” max_width=”640px” width=”100%” height=”100%”] After nearly a month of testimony, both the defense and prosecution rested Thursday in the trial of an ex-con accused of killing two Palm Springs police officers who responded to a domestic disturbance call at his family’s home. Family members and surviving police officers […]
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[bc_video video_id=”6029257985001″ account_id=”5728959025001″ player_id=”Hkbio1usDM” embed=”in-page” padding_top=”56%” autoplay=”” min_width=”0px” max_width=”640px” width=”100%” height=”100%”] Those who fought to save the lives of Palm Springs Police Officer Jose ‘Gil’ Vega and Officer Lesley Zerebny testified in court in the trial of John Hernandez Felix, the man charged with taking their lives. Sergeant Shawn Flinn says he remembers seeing Officer […]
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A Palm Springs police officer who survived a 2016 shooting attack that left two of his colleagues dead testified Tuesday that “it felt like forever” as he sat in the backseat of a patrol car, holding the bleeding body of a dying fellow officer. Mario Serrano — one of several officers who survived the onslaught […]
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The mother of a man accused of gunning down two Palm Springs police officers testified through tears Thursday that she had known one of the slain officers for nearly three decades and he often helped the family deal with her son, who is now charged with killing the veteran lawman. Margarita Felix said she and […]
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[bc_video video_id=”5977022678001″ account_id=”5728959025001″ player_id=”Hkbio1usDM” embed=”in-page” padding_top=”56%” autoplay=”” min_width=”0px” max_width=”640px” width=”100%” height=”100%”] “It’s hard,” says Valerie Lehmann – Frost through tears as she remembers a Sunday morning in 1997 when a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department official came to her door. “I was yelling at him please tell me he’s not dead and he put his head down […]
