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Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, said results, expected today, should show the gun's
history from manufacture to wholesaler to dealer to purchaser. Similar weapons can fire
1,600 rounds per minute when fully automatic.
Out on the street, meanwhile, Marrero's co-workers in blue kept trying to cope. Maj.
K.C. Newcomb said the mood was grim at the District 1 station where Marrero worked.
About 200 officers are based at the station house, across from the Hillsborough
Community College campus off Dale Mabry Highway.
Newcomb said the funeral would be difficult. ""But after that, every day will get a little
bit better. Life goes on in this profession, unfortunately,'' he said.
The funeral will feature a police honor guard, a special unit of about 20 officers. Wearing
dress uniforms, they will march, play taps and fire a salute at graveside.
Decorating Marrero's casket will be a spray of nearly 300 red and white roses, donated
by Catherine Haddad of Flowers by Patricia.
"It's the least we could do,'' said her daughter and shop co-owner Rania Haddad, 26.
"But we're highly upset it had to end up this way.''
Marrero's sister, Brenda Ayoub, said Marrero was 15 months from retirement and
weighing several second-career options.
Ayoub remembered her sister, who was 5-foot-1, as "very intense, very focused, very
loyal.''
Having grown up in Puerto Rico, Marrero was in school working on a sports medicine
degree when she got hooked by policing.
"The passion she had when she started was so strong, it prompted her to change
careers,'' Ayoub said. ""She fell in love with the academy and police work and dedicated
her life to it.''
The family is still in shock.
"It's just hard to believe this is the end,'' Ayoud said.
Tribune reporters Elizabeth Bettendorff, Paula Christian, Geoff Dutton, Ivan Hathaway, Lyda Longa and
Andrew Meadows contributed to this report.
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Cop-killer's partner charged in slaying
Associated Press
TAMPA -- The girlfriend of a bank robber who committed suicide after killing a Tampa
policewoman was ordered held without bail Saturday, charged in the robbery-slaying
and an earlier holdup.
Paula A. Gutierrez, 24, was charged with first-degree murder, kidnapping and two
counts of armed robbery.
Lois Marrero, a 19-year veteran of the Tampa Police Department, was gunned down
Friday as she chased Nester Luis DeJesus, 25, through a parking lot following a bank
holdup.
Witnesses said as Marrero approached, DeJesus stood up in a breezeway of an
apartment complex, aimed a semiautomatic weapon at her and fired over the roof of a
parked car.
Marrero, who was wearing her bullet proof vest, was hit by three shots to the neck and
side.