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Sunday, January 29, 2012

Officer Shot, Killed By Fellow Police

KCRA 3A police officer under investigation for sexual misconduct with a teenage minor was shot and killed while on duty by fellow officers Saturday as they tried to arrest him on California's central coast, authorities said.

The officer was manning a DUI checkpoint when the shooting occurred shortly after 1 a.m. He was declared dead after emergency surgery at Marian Medical Center, Santa Maria police Chief Danny Macagni said in a statement.

The officer, a four-year Santa Maria department veteran, had just learned of the internal investigation of an alleged sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl, and it became necessary to arrest him immediately, Macagni said.

"We had no choice," Macagni said in video of an afternoon news conference posted by KCOY-TV. He said investigators had evidence "that demanded that we go out and take this officer off the street immediately."

Supervising officers were sent to make a felony arrest, but he struggled with them when they arrived, first putting up a physical fight, then firing his gun but hitting no one, Macagni said.

"He chose to resist, he drew his weapon, a fight ensued, he fired his weapon," the chief said.

Several officers came to help the police making the arrest, and one of them shot the suspected officer in the chest once, Macagni said.

Detectives had begun investigating the alleged relationship on Thursday night, and minutes before the shooting had confirmed that an "inappropriate" and "very explicit" relationship had been going on, Macagni said. continue reading...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm no child porn advocate or anything like that. But for goodness sake, the girl was 17. By no means a child any more.

The only thing that made it inappropriate at that point was the law. Keep in mind, in Texas and some other states the legal age of consent is 16. So it's all perspective.

Now, given the fact this officer resisted arrest, and shot at fellow officers shows that he was a danger to have on the streets in that aspect.

Anonymous said...

I would be more than willing to bet there is a lot more too this story,,,,
Mayor's daughter? senators daughter? you see where I am going.