Former police officer indicted in fatal shooting

September 27, 2007 by admin 


CLAIMED HE SHOT AND KILLED HIS STEPFATHER IN SELF-DEFENSE IS INDICTED ON A MURDER CHARGE THE INDICTMENT COMES 14 MONTHS AFTER THE FATAL SHOOTING SHELTON DODSON HAS COVERED THIS CASE FROM THE VERY BEGINNING HE S LIVE OUTSIDE POLICE HEADQUARTERS — SHELTON THE GRAND JURY HEARD TESTIMONY FROM SEVEN WITNESS FOUR OF THEM MEMBERS OF A-P-D AND WHEN THEY WERE DONE FORMER A-P-D OFFICER ORLANDO CAMACHO WAS INDICTED ON A CHARGE OF SECOND DEGREE MURDER FROM THE GET GO THINGS DIDN T ADD UP ON JULY 4TH OF LAST YEAR ORLANDO CAMACHO USED HIS POLICE RADIO TO CALL AN AMBULANCE AND SUPERVISOR TO HIS SOUTHWEST ALBUQUERQUE HOME WHEN THEY GOT THERE THEY FOUND CAMACHO S STEPFATHER KIRK CARROLL DEAD OF A GUNSHOT WOUND CAMACHO SAYS HIS GUN WENT OFF ACCIDENTALLY DURING A STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE TWO BUT AS NIGHT TURNED TO DAY DETECTIVES TURNED TO CAMACHO WITH A LOT OF QUESTIONS AMONG THEM WHY WAS CAMACHO IN UNIFORM WEARING HIS GUN AND DRIVING HIS SQUAD CAR EVEN THOUGH HE WAS NOT ON DUTY THAT DAY WHEN WE ASKED THE DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OFFICE THOSE SAME QUESTION THEY WOULD ONLY SAY THE CASE IS VERY COMPLICATED AND IN THEIR WORDS BIZARRE BUT NOW THAT A GRAND JURY INDICTMENT IS IN HAND CAMACHO MUST BE ARRAIGNED WITHIN THE NEXT TEN DAYS AND ALONG WITH THE FORMAL READING OF THE CHARGE AGAINST HIM SHOULD COME MORE DETAILS OF THE SHOOTING THAT COST HIM HIS JOB AND MAYBE NOW HIS FREEDOM A-P-D FIRED CAMACHO SEVEN MONTHS AFTER THE SHOOTING WE CALLED HIS DEFENSE ATTORNEY SHOOTING WE CALLED HIS DEFENSE ATTORNEY FOR COMMENT THAT CALL WAS NOT RETURNED REPORTING LIVE FROM POLICE HEADQUARTERS SHELTON DODSON EYEWITNESS NEWS FOUR A NEW PROPOSAL

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