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jaycee:
http://murrieta.patch.com/articles/bar-shooting-leaves-one-dead-police-say-shooter-was-offduty-deputy
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Tragedy struck again last night in Murrieta when an off-duty cop reportedly shot and killed a man at a local pub.
Murrieta police responded shortly before 8 p.m. to a shooting call at Spelly’s Bar and Grille off Murrieta Hot Springs Road. A white male was found dead of multiple gunshot wounds inside.
The killing was the second to rock the city in as many days. The hunt is still on for a man accused of stabbing 18-year-old Saskia Burke to death in her Murrieta home early Tuesday morning before assaulting her father and boyfriend.
The bar shooter, an off-duty Riverside County sheriff’s deputy, surrendered himself to police without a struggle at the front door, Lt. Tony Conrad said.
The suspect was detained and transferred to Murrieta police headquarters for questioning. The city police department is taking the lead in the shooting investigation with support from the county sheriff’s department.
A sheriff’s spokesman said the department had no comment on the incident and referred requests for information to Murrieta police.
Police shut down the pub’s parking lot and moved about 30 witnesses who were inside at the time of the shooting to a nearby Starbucks for questioning.
Witness from inside
Chris Hull, a 39-year-old Temecula resident, said he was inside the bar and saw the shooting happen.
Hull said he witnessed a man walking up while Hull and a group of friends were playing darts. The man reportedly identified himself as an off-duty cop and started a discussion with the group about darts.
“We were playing darts, and he says 'I’m better at darts than you are,”' Hull said.
“My buddy says, ‘Aw, you suck at darts.’ (The man) says, ‘That’s why I’m a cop, I can do whatever I want to do.’”
Hull said his friend, identified only as Danny, asked the man, “Really, you can do anything?” The man then pulled out his gun, Hull said, and after the group repeatedly asked him to put it away he “pops three rounds into my friend Sam.”
Hull identified his friend as Sam Venettes. He didn't answer a request for Vanette's age or hometown, but said he was a "hardworking guy" who "works three jobs."
Police have not released any information on the name of the victim.
"I just watched the most horrific scene I've seen in my entire life," Hull told Patch.
"This is the worst day of my life."
The shooting was unrelated to the Tuesday stabbing death and ongoing manhunt for the suspect, Conrad said.
jaycee:
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=960&sid=18591691
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SALT LAKE CITY — A second woman has filed a federal lawsuit alleging a Box Elder County sheriff's deputy illegally strip-searched her last year.
Talia S. Buck, of Salt Lake County, says deputy Scott R. Womack pulled her over on the afternoon of Nov. 26, 2010, just south of Brigham City. He told her there was a warrant for her arrest in Arizona. Buck told him it must be a mistake because she had never been to Arizona, according to the suit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court.
Womack went back to his patrol car and Buck called her mother on her cell phone. When Womack returned, he told her except for her middle name, Buck matched the description for the Arizona woman. He told her the only way to prove her identity was to compare tattoos with the Arizona woman, the suit says. Buck told him she had a tattoo on her foot and her collar bone, which she reluctantly showed the officer. He told her he needed more proof and she complied, lifting the back of her shirt to reveal her lower back and abdomen.
Womack, according to the suit, told her the tattoo would be on her lower abdomen and she would have to show more.
"She could either pull down or 'low-ride' her pants to show Womack, or take the 'hard way' and be arrested and fingerprinted at the police station," the lawsuit states.
Buck says she began crying and told the deputy she needed to talk to her mother who was still on her cell phone.
"Womack suddenly became visibly nervous. Womack stated 'you seem like a nice girl. Let's just pretend this never happened.'"
Buck's story is similar to that of then 17-year-old Tamsen Reid in November 2010. Reid, now 18, held a news conference in August to tell her story.
According to Buck's suit, several women complained to the Box Elder County Sheriff's Office with similar stories. Buck says she called the office the day after the incident and was told, "I don't think officer Womack is that type of person."
The lawsuit also names Sheriff J. Lynn Yeates and Box Elder County.
In August, an attorney for the sheriff's office said Womack "left employment" and that the Weber County Attorney's Office was conducting a criminal investigation into Reid's allegations. Peace Officer Standards and Training also was investigating.
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