South Pasadena Police Officer Who Died During Training Exercise Laid To Rest

IRWINDALE (CBS) — A South Pasadena police officer who died during a training exercise will be laid to rest Friday.

Officer Kevin Sandoval, 23, of Covina, was among the South Pasadena and Pasadena officers participating in an exercise at the Burro Canyon shooting range on June 14 when he collapsed. Sandoval was taken to Foothill Presbyterian Hospital in Glendora, where he was pronounced dead about an hour later.

An autopsy has been completed, but Sheriff's Department homicide detectives placed a security hold on the information.

Ed Winter of the Los Angeles County coroner's office said he did not know why a security hold had been placed on the autopsy. He said, however, that investigators were still waiting for results of toxicology tests.

Winter and South Pasadena Police Chief Joseph Payne have both said Sandoval likely had some type of medical condition that contributed to his death.

Sandoval's funeral was held at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Irwindale, with a burial following at Forest Lawn Covina Hills.

Sandoval is survived by his parents, Vilma and Obdulio Sandoval, and his sister Janet of Covina.

He is the second South Pasadena police officer to die in the line of duty. Officer Ray Rogers died in 1944 in a traffic crash.

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