Feb. 15, 2008: Fellow officers carry the casket of Randal Simmons of the Los Angeles Police Department SWAT at the Crenshaw Christian Center Faith Dome in Los Angeles. (Photo by Al Seib-Pool/Getty Images)

LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A proposal to name a Reseda park after the first Los Angeles Police Department SWAT officer to die in the line of duty was unanimously approved today by the Los Angeles City Council.

Officer Randy Simmons died Feb. 7 during a standoff with a young man who killed his father and two brothers inside a Winnetka home. The 20-year-old was shot and killed by officers. The council approved the recommendation to rename West Valley Park after Simmons without discussion.

Councilman Dennis Zine, an LAPD reserve officer, introduced the measure. 'Officer Simmons always loved children, he was a SWAT officer with a huge heart, and it is appropriate that a children's play area in West Valley Park was just named in his honor,'' Zine's motion says.

'The selfless devotion to community which Officer Simmons maintained for many years is deserving of even greater recognition. It is appropriate thatin addition to the children's play area, the entire West Valley Park be named in his memory.''