The Los Angeles man accused of killing one Whittier police officer and wounding another in a shootout on Colima Road last February is scheduled to appear in court Friday, where a deputy district attorney said prosecutors will announce they’re seeking the death penalty in the case.

Michael Christopher Mejia faces two counts of murder, one count of attempted murder and one count of carjacking in connection with the shootings in East Los Angeles and Whittier, said Deputy District Attorney Garrett Dameron.

In an email, Dameron said there would be “no chance” of a plea deal for Mejia.

Officials believe the 27-year-old Mejia is responsible for a pair of deadly shootings on Feb. 20, 2017. Police said the man first shot his cousin, 47-year-old Roy Torres, to death in an East Los Angeles converted garage, before stealing the victim’s car.

Hours later, police said Mejia crashed that car at Colima Road and Mar Vista Street. After two Whittier officers responded, police said Mejia shot them both. Officer Keith Boyer was killed, while Officer Patrick Hazell was wounded.

Mejia was also wounded in the brief shootout.

His Friday appearance is scheduled for 9 a.m. at Norwalk Superior Court. Mejia pleaded not guilty in May 2017.

Mejia previously testified that he told two detectives that he was high on marijuana and other drugs at the time of the shooting. He also told the detectives he blacked out after being shot, and only remembered the incident later after watching news reports about it on television.

Investigators have not released any information indicating whether Mejia had drugs in his system the day of the shooting.

In June 2017, a pair of witnesses to the shooting who were riding in the car Mejia is suspected of crashing testified that the suspect asked how they were after colliding with them. One helped push Mejia’s cousin’s disabled car from southbound Colima to eastbound Mar Vista.

“He told me that he didn’t own the car, and he didn’t have any insurance,” said Ching Ta Chin through a court interpreter. “He told me to come closer to get information, but I said, ‘OK, but we can wait for the officers.’”

After he returned to his car, Chin said he heard shots coming from where the silver car had stopped.

The same month, prosecutors released audio of an interview with Mejia conducted the same day as the shooting, in which he laid out the timeline for the gun battle.

“I know I smoked this one,” Mejia said to the investigators, apparently referring to Boyer. “Yet the second one. Could not get him.”

Police said Mejia was a known gang member with a history of cycling in an out of prison. At the time of the shooting, he was on probation for an auto theft conviction in 2016. The shooting led to local elected officials calling for changes to several prison reform laws, like A.B. 109 and the voter-initiated Propositions 47 and 57.

Boyer’s killing almost one year ago — only the third in the history of the Whittier police, and the first since 1979 — led to an outpouring of support from the community for the fallen officer’s family. About 4,000 people, many fellow members of law enforcement, attend his March 2017 funeral.