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BALDWIN PARK, Calif. - Officials have identified the innocent civilian who was fatally shot just moments before a Baldwin Park police officer was killed in a shootout with a suspect over the weekend.

What we know:

Darius Wong, 43, and Baldwin Park police officer Samuel Riveros were shot dead in the evening hours of Saturday, May 31. A second police officer was also shot but has since been released from the hospital after receiving treatment.

Riveros was a part of a response dispatched at about 7:15 p.m. Saturday to the 4200 block of Filhurst Avenue, a few blocks east of the 605 Freeway, regarding a man with a rifle, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

Samuel Riveros. PHOTO: Baldwin Park Police Department

A male adult victim, later identified as Wo

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