On July 22, 1957, Officer Richard A. Phillips, aged 28, tragically lost his life in El Segundo, California. Officer Phillips, along with his partner Officer Milton Curtis, was conducting a routine traffic stop for a vehicle that had run 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 the ticket, Mason opened fire, fatally shooting both officers with a .2
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