Los Angeles prosecutors have charged two former police officers in a 2020 shooting of an unarmed man. The shooting left the man paralyzed from the waist down.
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have been charged in the 2020 shooting of an unarmed man that left him paralyzed from the waist down, the district attorney said Wednesday. Former Whittier detectives Cynthia Lopez and Salvador Murillo opened fire on April 30, 2020, as Nicholas Carrillo ran from them. Two bullets struck him in the back — one severing his spinal cord — as he climbed a fence to escape.
"Although he was lucky to survive, his life was forever changed and he must now begin using a wheelchair," Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón said Wednesday during a news conference.and two counts of assault under color of authority. Lopez faces two counts of assault under color of authority, one count of shooting into an occupied vehicle and one count of assault with a semiautomatic firearm. Prosecutors filed the charges Tuesday.
The detectives were in plainclothes and an unmarked car when they spotted a sedan that had been supposedly used during an unarmed robbery the month before, Gascón said. A woman was the
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