Suspect in killing of LA-area police officer lived with mother, had no criminal record

The suspect accused of fatally shooting two people including a Baldwin Park police officer over the weekend has been identified as 22-year-old Eduardo Roberto Medina-Berumen, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Monday.

Medina-Berumen was arrested on suspicion of murder and is being held in lieu of $4 million bail, according to the Sheriff’s Department.

Two law enforcement sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss the active investigation, said Medina-Berumen has no known criminal history. He lives with his mother at the Baldwin Park address on Filhurst Avenue where gunfire erupted Saturday night, a source said. Baldwin Park is in L.A. County’s San Gabriel Valley…

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