LA HABRA HEIGHTS, Calif. (CNS) — A group of demonstrators gathered near Sheriff Alex Villanueva's La Habra Heights home Wednesday, singing Christmas carols with the verses changed to demand he release the names of the deputies who killed three men since 2019.

Members of the Coalition for Community Control Over the Police, along with the families of Dijon Kizzee, Fred Williams, and Marco Vasquez — who were all fatally shot by deputies — gathered on Las Palomas Drive about 3 p.m., said Cliff Smith with the Coalition for Community Control Over the Police, who organized the event.

The department declined to comment on the demonstration, with sheriff's Lt. Julie Geary saying only that there were roughly "25 to 30 people in La Habra Heights singing Christmas carols."

Photos of the event provided by Smith show deputies gathered around a sheriff's department SUV in the middle of the street on El Cajonita Drive, the dead-end street where Villanueva's house is situated.

The group read from a booklet of 12 Christmas songs, the lyrics of which were changed to insist that the sheriff announce the names of the deputies who shot the men, Smith said.

One song sung to the tune of "Frosty the Snowman" included a line demanding the sheriff to "release their identities, the people got the right to know the killers in our communities," according to Smith.

Demonstrators began dispersing before 4:30 p.m. Smith said the event was peaceful and deputies at the scene "gave us our space."

"These are public employees, and they can't be permitted to kill people in our communities, and then remain under some cloak of secrecy," Smith said of the deputies who shot Kizzee, Williams, and Vasquez.

Deputy Shawn Dubusky declined to comment on the reasons the department has not released the names of the deputies.

Kizzee, 29, was shot Aug. 31 by two sheriff's deputies in the unincorporated community of Westmont, near South Los Angeles.

The sheriff's department contends that Kizzee had dropped a gun during the initial confrontation with deputies, then picked it up and raised it toward deputies, prompting them to open fire, hitting him 19 times.

Kizzee's attorneys, including national civil rights lawyer Ben Crump, denounced the sheriff's version of events and insists that Kizzee was shot with his hands in the air, then was shot repeatedly while he was on the ground.

Williams, 25, was fatally shot by a deputy in Willowbrook on Oct. 16. Footage released by the sheriff's department on Oct. 30 shows him on top of a garden shed with a firearm in his hand as he jumps into the yard of another property, at which point the deputy shoots him.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department claims Williams pointed a gun at the deputy, but that allegation is not clear in the footage.

Vasquez was killed in October 2019, when deputies were called twice to the 8200 block of Rexall Avenue in Whittier, initially after reports of a man running around with a machete, then again later when a neighbor claimed the man said he wanted to be shot by police.

When deputies arrived for the second call, they saw Vasquez standing in the driveway with a knife threatening a woman, according to Deputy Tracy Koerner of the Sheriff's Information Bureau.

Vasquez ignored commands to drop the knife and advanced toward deputies, who fired at him, Koerner said in October.

In a federal civil rights lawsuit filed against the sheriff's department in February, Vasquez's family members claimed LASD knew the day before the shooting that the 37-year-old had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.