An Alhambra police officer wears Alec Sanders’ police number during his funeral service at Shepherd Church in Porter Ranch on Tuesday, Dec. 9. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

They came, scores of uniformed officers, others wearing black, from West Covina and Glendale and San Diego, to honor Alec Sanders, the fallen Alhambra officer.

His fiancée was here with his badge hanging from her neck.

Manny Salguero, a sheriff’s deputy from Bastrop County, Texas, who had known Sanders since high school, and his wife were here, too.

So was Paolo Garcia, from Sanders’ church, St. Peter Claver, in Simi Valley. Before the casket went inside the large Shepherd Church in Porter Ranch for the funeral services on Tuesday morning, Dec. 9, the priest did a blessing over it and han

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