Officer Gardiel Solorio was the youngest of 13 children, according to his family. Solorio was shot and killed while off-duty in Downey this week.
page set up by his sister-in-law. Now Solorio's loved ones are working to raise funds to bring his extended family to give the 26-year-old a proper sendoff.
"His dream of becoming a police officer after years of hard work and dedication had finally come to fruition, when life was abruptly taken away due to a senseless act of violence," Solorio's sister-in-law wrote on the GoFundMe page. "He was taken from his family way too soon. He was and has always been [a] true American success story."
Solorio's family says he was also a first-generation college graduate, and the first and his family to become police officer. "We all knew from the moment we met him that he had the heart of service and was going to be a great officer," MPPD Chief Kelly Gordon said. "And I could tell that from the moment he walked in and did our first introductions in my office. The family and department are grieving right now, and this is an especially difficult tragedy. It's a senseless act of violence. He was only 26 years old. I don't know about all of you, but I have children that age.
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