Lawrence Loehr was working an overnight security shift at a construction site in Stockton at the time of his killing.

On the morning of May 23, 1994, two best friends, Lawrence “Larry” Loehr and Eugene Cates, were brutally killed at a north Stockton construction site. Both were 23 years old, engaged to the women they planned to marry and on the verge of careers in law enforcement. For 32 years, no one was held accountable. Now, authorities say they have solved the case: Donald Lee Clark, 80, a lifelong Stockton resident, has been arrested and charged with murder.

Loehr was working an overnight security shift at the Spanos Park construction site on Thornton Road. On that early Monday morning, Cates stopped by after finishing his shift at a nearby Chevron station on Benjamin Holt Drive. At around 3 a.m., police received a report of an assault at the site. When Stockton police officers arrived, they found both men dead. 

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Loehr had been bound, gagged and shot once in the back of the head inside a security........

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