Laguna Beach police remember fallen officers at ceremony

The Laguna Beach Police Department presented a public remembrance ceremony Friday evening outside police headquarters to honor officers Jon Coutchie and Gordon French, who died on duty.

French, 48, died after being shot in the stomach by a suspect trying to flee on Feb. 13, 1953. French had served in the Laguna Beach PD for three years.

Coutchie, a motorcycle officer, was trying to find a vehicle that had eluded another officer when he was killed in a traffic collision Sept. 21, 2013, at age 41.