A Los Angeles cop has been arrested for tried homicide after allegedly capturing a fellow officer whereas they have been firing weapons on a tenting journey, in accordance with officers.
Officer Ismael Tamayo, 44, was nonetheless armed when he was busted early Sunday quickly after his 48-year-old colleague was shot within the higher physique in an off-roading space in San Bernardino County, the LAPD stated.
Tamayo was one in all three off-duty officers “tenting and capturing weapons” there when “for causes nonetheless underneath investigation” he shot his colleague, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s workplace alleged in a launch.
The unidentified injured cop was airlifted to a trauma heart. He's in secure situation and anticipated to outlive. Their different tenting buddy — an off-duty supervisor — was unhurt, officers stated.
Tamayo was charged with tried homicide and booked into Excessive Desert Detention Heart on $1 million bail, courtroom data present.
The 13-year LAPD veteran was additionally stripped of his police powers till the prison and inner investigations are accomplished, the LAPD stated. It was not clear if the gun he had when arrested was his service weapon.
His police chief, Michel Moore, stated the incident gave him “nice concern.”
“I'm grateful our injured officer is in secure situation and anticipated to outlive,” he stated, pledging “full assist” to investigating sheriffs.
“I'm dedicated to figuring out what and the way this occurred.”
An legal professional for the officer, Greg Yacoubian, informed the Los Angeles Each day Information it was “manner too early to be making these sort of worth judgments about what occurred.”
“I believe as soon as the investigation shakes out he’ll be cleared of any prison wrongdoing,” Yacoubian insisted.
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