The El Monte officers, a veteran of more than 22 years and a rookie with less than a year on the job, went to the Siesta Inn in El Monte, east of Los Angeles, around 4:45 p.m., authorities said.

The woman, believed to be the suspect’s girlfriend, had not been stabbed, he said. “They were good men,” Capt. Ben Lowry, the El Monte Police Department’s acting chief, said of the officers.

The man who killed two El Monte police officers was on probation for illegally carrying a gun when he fired on the officers as they responded to a call for service at a motel Tuesday, court ...

Although a judge previously dismissed most of a consolidated lawsuit brought by relatives of two El Monte police officers ... officer with the owners of the motel where the shootings occurred ...