On Thursday, a former North Texas police officer was charged with murder in a deadly shooting of a suspect after a slow vehicle. Indicted tracking.
A grand jury in Tarrant County has charged former Arlington police officer Robert Phillips in a shooting on October 20 by Jesse Fisher in Addison, Texas.
Seven-year troop veteran Phillips was fired two days after the shooting for violating Arlington police policy. Phillips violated policy restrictions if police could put themselves in the path of a moving vehicle and shoot a moving vehicle, police chief Al Jones said. ..
If convicted, Phillips could be sentenced to 5 to 99 years or life imprisonment. It was not clear from prison records whether he had a lawyer.
CBS Dallas reported that everything started around 2:30 pm. When police were called to the crossroads, there was a 911 phone call about the person, later identified as Fisher. He fell into a running vehicle.
Police said the policeman checked the man who was awake and told him to turn off the car. Instead, he drove away and began slow tracking at 20 mph.
Eventually, the driver stopped, the policeman got out of the car, and began to verbally command the driver to drop the key.
The man drove away from the scene again, and the slow chase ended on a dead end.
An officer — Phillips — stopped, got out of his car, and stood near the driver's door of another car.
At that point, the suspect made a U-turn at the dead end and began driving towards the police. Police officers fired multiple ammunition and beat the suspect. The suspect later died in the hospital.
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