Bagpipes played and drums sounded for the hundreds gathered Tuesday morning to mourn and celebrate the life of Stockton Fire Capt. Vidal “Max” Fortuna, who was shot and killed in the line of duty last week.

Fortuna, 47, served his community for 21 years before he was shot Jan. 31 while responding to a fire near Aurora and Washington streets.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.