LOS ANGELES — Two former Whittier police detectives pleaded not responsible Monday to fees stemming from an on-duty capturing in 2020 that left a person paralyzed.
Salvador Murillo, 41, and Cynthia Lopez, 34, are charged in reference to the April 30, 2020, capturing of Nicholas Carrillo, who was noticed in a car which will have been utilized in a theft by a feminine at a Walmart weeks earlier, based on a press release that was launched by the Los Angeles County District Legal professional’s Workplace final month after the 2 have been charged.
Carrillo allegedly backed up the car and bumped the undercover officers’ car, with Lopez allegedly firing into the car’s again window whereas Carrillo was nonetheless within the driver’s seat after which firing two extra photographs at Carrillo and lacking him as he ran away, based on the District Legal professional’s Workplace.
The 2 detectives allegedly gave chase with Murillo allegedly firing extra photographs as the person climbed over a 6-foot fence, placing him twice within the again, based on the District Legal professional’s Workplace, which famous that one shot severed Carrillo’s backbone and instantly left him paralyzed from the waist down.
Carrillo was unarmed, and no weapons have been discovered contained in the car, based on the D.A.’s Workplace.
Murillo is charged with two felony counts every of assault with a semiautomatic firearm inflicting nice bodily harm and assault beneath shade of authority inflicting nice bodily harm, whereas Lopez is charged with two felony counts of assault beneath shade of authority and one rely every of assault with a semiautomatic firearm and capturing at an occupied car.
Lopez and Murillo are now not with the Whittier Police Division.
A date is scheduled to be set July 24 for a listening to to find out whether or not there may be sufficient proof to permit the case in opposition to the 2 to proceed to trial.
