California deputy charged with faking ‘shocking ambush’ KATE FELDMAN
A California sheriff’s deputy who said he was shot last year staged the entire incident, prosecutors alleged.
Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Sukhdeep Gill, 27, reported in January 2020 that he had been shot “from a passing car as he stood on a dark rural road near Morgan Hill,” according to the Santa Clara District Attorney’s Office.
Responding officers found no serious injuries on Gill and reported that he appeared to have only been hit once “and in a miraculous spot – his body-worn camera, which was destroyed.”
The deputy told the first officer at the scene that he had stopped on the dirt shoulder to urinate. As he walked back to his patrol car, the passenger in a silver sedan with no lights fired at him, he claimed.
Police officer faces prison for staging drive-by shooting ambush in bewildering case
Deputy Sukhdeep Gill claimed he was ambushed in January 2020 while on duty but police say an investigation found evidence that exposed serious discrepancies in his story
10:50, 30 JAN 2021
The policeman claimed he was shot from a passing car as he stood on a dark rural road (Image: KTVU News)
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