On July 22, 1957, Officer Milton G. Curtis, a 25-year-old member of the El Segundo Police Department, was tragically killed in the line of duty. Officer Curtis, along with his colleague Officer Richard A. Phillips, had stopped a vehicle for running a red light. Unbeknownst to them, the driver, Gerald F. Mason, had just committed a series of heinous crimes, including the kidnapping and rape of a teenage girl. As the officers were writing a ticket, Mason shot both officers with a .22 caliber revol
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