Article: FUNERAL HELD FOR OFFICER : FAMILY'S LAWYER CONTESTS VERSIONS OF FATAL SHOOTING.(News)

Byline: Dennis Love Daily News Staff Writer

The mausoleum vault was scarcely sealed Tuesday at the interment of Los Angeles police Officer Kevin Gaines when the debate resumed over the still-murky circumstances of his shooting death March 18 by another officer.

Gaines, 31, was shot by on-duty narcotics Detective Frank Lyga, 40, on Cahuenga Boulevard near Lankershim Boulevard in Studio City after what Lyga says was a traffic confrontation. Investigators have said Gaines and Lyga were unaware they both were police officers.

After the service, an attorney working with Johnnie L. Cochran Jr.'s law firm to represent the Gaines family said there were ...

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