A candlelight vigil in remembrance of fallen Alhambra Police Department Officer Alec Sanders, who was killed in the line of duty when his patrol cruiser collided with an allegedly stolen SUV during a chase, was held Tuesday night.

"I never heard one bad thing about him,'' APD Chief Garrett Kennedy said after the vigil outside the department's station. "When I would see him, I would ask him, 'How things are going? Does he enjoy the police department?' He said he loved it.''

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Kennedy said Sanders' family told him that Sanders had a passion for serving the community and being a police officer, that he just ''truly loved coming to work. He loved serving this community.''

Sanders, who had been with the Alhambra Police De

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