{"id":56738,"date":"2014-10-10T17:17:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T00:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=56738"},"modified":"2014-10-15T17:41:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T00:41:43","slug":"remembering-deputy-luis-perez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2014\/10\/10\/remembering-deputy-luis-perez\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Deputy Luis Perez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HKYl2BLHPQk?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>LANCASTER\u00a0\u2013 A small group of family members and colleagues gathered in Lancaster Friday morning\u00a0to remember Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Deputy <strong>Luis R. Perez<\/strong> on the fifth anniversary of his death.<\/p>\n<p>Perez died from injuries he sustained in a single-vehicle traffic collision on the 14 Freeway.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_56739\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56739\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Luis-Perez.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56739\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Luis-Perez.jpg\" alt=\"Luis R. Perez\" width=\"290\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-56739\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis R. Perez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On the day of the crash, Perez was in great spirits, having just received a transfer from the North County Correctional Facility to the closer-to-home Mira Loma Detention Center, according to Deputy Annette Lopez of the Lancaster Sheriff\u2019s Station.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat night, they decided to hang out \u2013 go to dinner \u2013 since it was going to be one of his last opportunities to hang out with a lot of people,\u201d Lopez said. \u201c[Perez] decided to drive home late at night, and he was involved in a traffic collision a short distance away from his home,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The accident happened in March 2009, and Perez passed away Oc. 10, 2009, three days before his 30<sup>th<\/sup> birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Loved ones have marked the anniversary of his passing each year by gathering at the gravesite at Joshua Memorial Park to reminisce, exchange stories and reflect on the good times they all shared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was always a character, always fun to be around, so we just wanted to get together\u2026 and remember what a wonderful person he was,\u201d Lopez added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANCASTER\u00a0\u2013 A small group of family members and colleagues gathered in Lancaster Friday morning\u00a0to remember Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Deputy Luis R. Perez on the fifth anniversary of his death. Perez died from injuries he sustained in a single-vehicle traffic collision on the 14 Freeway. On the day of the crash, Perez was in great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":56739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}