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Jamie Brown (front) a senior officer with the Oxnard Police Department, assists with traffic control as Patriot Guard riders arrive at Santa Clara Mortuary in Oxnard for a service to honor Marine Cpl. Richard Anthony Rivera Jr. on Friday. Rivera and two other Marines were shot dead last week in Afghanistan.

Photo by Joseph A. Garcia, Ventura County Star

Jamie Brown (front) a senior officer with the Oxnard Police Department, assists with traffic control as Patriot Guard riders arrive at Santa Clara Mortuary in Oxnard for a service to honor Marine Cpl. Richard Anthony Rivera Jr. on Friday. Rivera and two other Marines were shot dead last week in Afghanistan.

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  • Jamie Brown (front) a senior officer with the Oxnard Police Department, assists with traffic control as Patriot Guard riders arrive at Santa Clara Mortuary in Oxnard for a service to honor Marine Cpl. Richard Anthony Rivera Jr. on Friday. Rivera and two other Marines were shot dead last week in Afghanistan.
  • Members of Weapons Company 2D Battalion 23D Marines help deliver a casket that holds the body of Oxnard native Richard Anthony Rivera Jr.
  • Linda Rivera (left) watches as the casket that holds her son is loaded into a hearse Friday afternoon.
  • Members of the Patriot Guard Riders follow a hearse as it enters Naval Air Station Point Mugu on Friday morning.
  • Members of the Patriot Guard Riders hold flags as the casket carrying the body of Marine Cpl. Richard Anthony Rivera Jr. is unloaded from a plane at Naval Air Station Point Mugu on Friday afternoon.
  • Isaiah (from left), Linda and Richard Rivera stand near a casket that holds Marine Cpl. Richard Anthony Rivera Jr.
  • Linda Rivera and her son Isaiah leave after saying their final goodbyes to Richard Anthony Rivera Jr. on Friday afternoon.
  • A hearse carrying the body of Marine Cpl. Richard Anthony Rivera Jr. arrives by escort at Santa Clara Mortuary in Oxnard. Rivera and two other Marines were slain together last week in Afghanistan.
  • Linda Rivera (center) stands besides her son Isaiah and watches as the casket that holds the body of Marine Cpl. Richard Anthony Rivera Jr. is carried into the chapel at Santa Clara Mortuary on Friday afternoon.

The body of Oxnard native Richard Anthony Rivera Jr., 20, returns to Ventura County. The corporal had just finished his last duty of the day in Afghanistan and decided to exercise with two other Marines when they were fatally ambushed on Aug. 10.

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