Hundreds attended a vigil on Tuesday night to remember fallen Alhambra Police Officer Alec Sanders, who was killed in the line of duty during a chase when his cruiser collided with a stolen SUV.

Los Angeles County prosecutors have filed murder charges against 27-year-old El Monte resident Steven Zapata -- the man they say was driving the stolen SUV.

Sanders' fellow officers memorialised him at Tuesday's vigil, sharing stories of a colleague and career cut short.

Weighed with grief, officers of the Alhambra Police Department shielded the flames that burned in Sanders' memory.

"A light of service, a light of courage, a light of joy for the job he loved so deeply," one speaker said.

Standing shoulder-to-shoulder under the American flag, officers from agencies across Southern Californ

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