No Charges Filed Against LAPD Officers In Shooting During Dorner Manhunt
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Prosecutors declined Wednesday to file charges against eight Los Angeles Police Department officers involved in a 2013 shooting that left two women injured during a manhunt for former officer Christopher Dorner.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office cited "insufficient admissible evidence" to prove Sgt. John Valdez and Officers Jess Faber, Marlon Franco, Sergio Gramajo, John Hart, Geoff Lear, Deshon Parker and Jonathan Roman were not acting in self-defense or in defense of others.
Margie Carranza, 47, and her mother, Emma Hernandez, 71, were delivering newspapers in their blue pickup truck at about 5 a.m. Feb. 7 when officers opened fire without warning.
The women's attorney, Glen Jonas, later claimed to have counted 100 ammunition shells at the scene.
Hernandez used her body to shield her daughter and suffered gunshot wounds to her back. Carranza was injured from flying glass.
The Los Angeles City Council approved a $4.2 million settlement with the women in summer 2013.
The officers mistook the women's pickup truck for one that was being driven by Dorner, a fugitive ex-officer who had already killed two people and then posted an online manifesto vowing to kill LAPD officers and their families.
The same day as the gunfire in Torrance, Dorner opened fire on two police officers in Riverside, killing one and wounding the other.
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