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Marine pallbearers prepare the flag-draped coffin with the remains of Lance Cpl. Carlos A. Segovia-Lopez during a funeral service on Oct. 5, 2016, at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angles in Los Angeles. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo Credit: Al Seib\/Los Angeles Times via AP<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Lopez told her community that when members of the military come to visit, they need to be taken care of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We can’t lose another one. We need to take care of them. If you see one of them in danger call the police right away,” she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Segovia was a native of El Salvador who joined the Marine Corps after high school, where volunteered with a Los Angeles group that helps homeless people and their animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “I will carry Carlos with me to serve this city,” Garcetti said. Marine pallbearers carry the flag-draped coffin with the remains of Lance Cpl. Carlos A. Segovia-Lopez during an Oct. 5, 2016, funeral service at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angles in Los Angeles. Segovia, 19, died Sept. 19 after he was fatally shot in South Los Angeles while on weekend leave from Camp Pendleton.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo Credit: Al Seib\/Los Angeles Times via AP<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Segovia, a U.S. citizen, also was eulogized by Lt. Col. Cory Quinn, commander of Advanced Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry (West), at Camp Pendleton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “I ask myself this, why do you join? Our nation’s been at war for 15 years. This Friday is the 15th anniversary of the first bomb that fell on Afghanistan. Almost his whole life, the country’s at war, and yet he joined the military,” Quinn said. “To join the Marines at a time of war, to join as an infantryman, is an extraordinary emotional and intellectual decision.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Los Angeles has offered a $50,000 reward to find the killer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hundreds of people mourned a young Marine who was gunned down while visiting Los Angeles last month, remembering him at his funeral Mass on Wednesday as a volunteer who helped others and signed up to serve during wartime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":42259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":69,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[12,69],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1351],"class_list":["post-19184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-your-marine-corps"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"WWRUX4HGOZBHZEJXH7JSWI3HRY","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2016\/10\/05\/funeral-held-for-marine-killed-while-on-leave-in-los-angeles\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/marine-pallbearers-carry-the-flag-draped-coffin-with-the-remains-of-lance-cpl-carlos-a-segovia-lopez.jpg.jpg\")