As Oakland prepared for Tuesday night's vigil to honor the four officers slain in East Oakland on Saturday, residents brought flowers, notes, pictures and candles to a sidewalk memorial. The display is at the corner of 74th Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard, where the first two officers were shot.Parolee Lovelle Mixon, 26, gunned down Sgt. Mark Dunakin, 40, and Officer John Hege, 41, who had pulled Mixon over for a routine traffic stop. Mixon fled to his sister's apartment about half a block away and barricaded himself inside.
About two hours later, as a police SWAT team entered the apartment where he was hiding, Mixon opened fire, killing Sgt. Daniel Sakai, 35, and Sgt. Ervin Romans, 43.
The three-block stretch of MacArthur where Tuesday night's vigil was held is among the most crime-ridden areas of the city. Neighbors complain of frequent robberies, drug dealing and shootings and said they are devastated by the officers' deaths.
Investigators are trying to determine why Mixon fired on the two motorcycle officers who pulled him over.
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