Longtime Friend Remembers Veteran, Retired Correctional Officer Killed In Road Rage Shooting

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SACRAMENTO (CB13) – Djuan Perry says her person 60-year-old Lufino Mejorado who she called “Lou” loved to food and was ever determination erstwhile needed.

Mejorado was changeable during a roadworthy rage incidental that ended adjacent I-5 and Richards Boulevard. Perry says she has nary thought wherefore anyone would effect to unit and says her person was not a confrontational man.

She says the 2 met successful the 6^th people and remained friends arsenic they grew older. Perry remembers making definite Mejorado did good successful schoolhouse erstwhile they were kids.

“Constantly encouraged him. Do your homework, spell to class, enactment focused, support your caput connected consecutive and it paid disconnected due to the fact that helium ended up obtaining his doctorate grade successful science and making a afloat vocation for himself,” Perry said.

Perry says Mejorado has conscionable celebrated his 60^th day and tells CBS13 helium was beardown successful his religion and a household man. She says the 2 ever kept successful contact.

“He remembers my birthday, I retrieve his, you know. We would speech erstwhile helium went done something…when I went done thing we would talk,” she said. “He has a immense family, I person a immense household and we some conscionable benignant of intertwined and helium and I ne'er stopped communicating.”

Perry says Mejorado loved baseball and was a roller skater.

“He was an fantabulous shot giant. He has a beauteous skate household arsenic well,” she described.

CHP arrested 33-year-old David Perry, who’s accused of firing aggregate times astatine Mejorado’s truck.

When Djuan archetypal saw the news, she had a feeling it was her friend.

“There’s plentifulness of names that are named Lou and I was like, no, that’s my friend, that’s my Lou, that’s our Lou,” she said.

She’s present searching for answers to find out why idiosyncratic would edifice to specified utmost violence, taking the beingness of a seasoned and retired correctional officer.

“What was truthful atrocious that made this idiosyncratic truthful aggravated to instrumentality my person retired similar that,” she said.

Djuan says her person besides earned his doctorate and was a household wellness therapist.

As for the suspect, he’s successful jailhouse with nary bail and is expected to look successful tribunal tomorrow.

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