In the end:
# Ceres police Sgt. Howard Stevenson, 39, was dead.
# Andres Raya, who police say seemed determined to die rather than return to Iraq, was dead.
# Ceres police officer Sam Ryno, 50, was hospitalized with multiple gunshot wounds. He was in critical condition Monday, and is expected to recover.
Monday, detectives from sev-eral law enforcement agencies -- from the Ceres police to the FBI -- sifted through events leading to Sunday's carnage.
Officers were still struggling to figure out what drove Raya to fire on officers.
"It was premeditated, planned, an ambush," Ceres Police Chief Art de Werk said. "It was a suicide by cop."
De Werk said investigators are not ruling out other motives or accomplices, but believe that Raya, a Marine who had served seven months in Iraq, was concerned about the possibility of going back into combat.
Raya returned to the United States in September and recently visited his family in Modesto.
Julia Cortez Raya said Monday that her son served in Fallujah: "He came back different."
http://modbee.com/local/v-print/story/9750300p-10616529c.html
My boyfriend's brother is coming home from Falluja soon. I sure hope he's better off than this poor guy. The age really bothers me...I just turned 20 myself.