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Dallas police Officer Bryan Riser is fired after internal investigation into accusations of capital murder
The expedited internal investigation was a formality to make it unlikely that Riser could get his job back.
Dallas Police Chief Eddie García said in a news release Tuesday that he had fired Officer Bryan Riser after an investigation into allegations that Riser ordered the killings of two people.
The internal affairs investigation concluded that Riser “engaged in adverse conduct when he was arrested for two counts of Capital Murder,” the release says.
Riser, who joined the department in 2008 and was assigned to the South Central patrol division, was arrested last week when allegations surfaced that he had been involved in the fatal shootings of 60-year-old Albert Douglas and 30-year-old Liza Saenz in 2017.