Photo: Omar Ornelas/The Desert Sun
At 12:50 a.m. Sunday, police arrested known gang member John Felix in the killing of two Palm Springs police officers in a 12-hour standoff. Felix, 26, is accused of two counts of murder of a peace officer. More information is anticipated in an 11 a.m. press conference.
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The suspect in a Palm Springs shooting that killed two police officers on Saturday was previously sentenced to four years in prison in an attempted gangland assassination.
He was also the subject of a forceful arrest three years ago at the same doorstep where the shooting occurred.
The officers were responding to a domestic disturbance at what appears to be Felix’s father’s house. They were shot at the front door, the police have said.
