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(CBS) LONG BEACH Two men were charged with murder Wednesday in the March 28 shooting death of a female Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy, who was killed in the driveway of a Long Beach home as she prepared to leave for work. Frank Christopher Gonzalez, 26, and Justin Ashley Flint, 20, were scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday afternoon in Long Beach Superior Court in connection with the slaying of Maria Rosa, 30. Rosa was shot and killed around 6 a.m. March 28 in the driveway of the home of a female sheriff's detective she had been visiting in the 2900...

LONG BEACH, Calif. - Detectives investigating the fatal shooting of a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy determined she was shot by someone else rather than accidentally by her own gun, authorities said Wednesday. They also said robbery was a possible motive, adding they don't believe Maria Cecelia Rosa was killed because of her law enforcement affiliation. Rosa, 30, a six-year department veteran, was found slumped over the open trunk of her car early Tuesday with a gunshot wound to her upper body. The shooting occurred in a friend's driveway. Sheriff Lee Baca initially said the positions of Rosa's body and...