Calif. cop slain resisting arrest ASSOCIATED PRESS - When a police officer dies on the job, a department and a community mourn together. But not this week in Santa Maria. Officer Alberto Covarrubias Jr. was shot and killed early Saturday. The shooter was his best friend on the force and best man at his wedding just three weeks earlier. The shooting occurred as detectives moved in to arrest Covarrubias, 29, on charges of having sex with a 17-year-old girl. Now, as Covarrubias' family prepares to bury him without a police funeral, two retired officers who spoke with police at the shooting scene offered details of the case: