The gang suppression team officers were cruising the working class San Diego neighborhood of Southcrest on a humid summer night when they saw two men walking down Acacia Grove Way.

The officers decided to talk to the men, and steered into a driveway about 11 p.m. One of the men drifted away quickly. The other one, without warning, shot Officer Wade Irwin in the throat and pumped at least five rounds into Officer Jonathan “J.D.” De Guzman as he sat behind the steering wheel of his patrol car.