A San Bernardino police officer will receive the Medal of Valor for his actions on the night that his partner was shot in the head, officials say.googleoff: all
Gov. Jerry Brown is scheduled to present the prestigious award -- California's highest honor of its type -- to Officer Marcus Pesquera in a Sept. 14 ceremony at the state capitol in Sacramento.googleoff: all
Pesquera had been a policeman only 45 days when his training officer, Gabriel Garcia, was critically wounded during a 2 a.m. confrontation on Aug. 22, 2014, along a dimly lit dead-end street.googleoff: all
Despite his inexperience, police officials said in a written statement, Pesquera avoided panic, returned fire, radioed that his partner had been wounded, and then won the gunfight.