Michael Anthony Brennan, 39, was killed on May 27, 1987, in Bellflower, California, after confronting two men who were breaking into cars in the parking garage of his apartment complex on Downey Avenue. Brennan, a sergeant with the Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach Police Department, was off-duty and in uniform when he pursued the suspects to the garage’s second level. During a struggle one of the men produced a handgun and fatally shot Brennan; the assailants then stole his off-duty revolver and fled.

Murder warrants were issued and the case remained open until September 16, 1988, when one suspect was taken into custody by Montebello police. That suspect resisted, disarmed an officer during the arrest confrontation, was shot and wounded by another officer, and was later convicted of Brennan’s murder and sentenced to life without parole.

Brennan was a Vietnam War veteran who served two years in the U.S. Air Force as a Security Policeman, spent 15 years in law enforcement in Ohio, and had served two years with the Seal Beach force. Does anyone have memories of Brennan or information about his service and final actions that could add to the record?