DOWNEY, Calif.—A third suspect has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of an off-duty Monterey Park police officer during what District Attorney George Gascón called a botched robbery attempt in Downey, police announced.
Gerardo Magallanes, 18, of San Pedro was arrested Aug.11 and booked on suspicion of murder in connection with the fatal shooting of Officer Gardiel Solorio, 26. Magallanes’s alleged role in the shooting was not specified.
Solorio was in his vehicle in the parking lot of an LA Fitness gym in the 12700 block of Lakewood Boulevard, near the Glenn Anderson (105) Freeway, around 3:30 p.m. Aug. 8 when a suspect—later identified as 20-year-old Carlos Delcid—allegedly got out of a car nearby and approached Solorio “with a gun drawn in what appeared to be an attempted robbery,” Gascón said….