Leads about an on-duty killing dismissed as rumor at scandal-plagued Sheriff s Station in Thermal
At scandal-plagued Thermal Station, leads that a love triangle might have motivated Oscar Rodriguez s fatal shooting of Luis Morin Jr. were kept from homicide investigators.
Christopher Damien, Palm Springs Desert Sun
Published
8:12 pm UTC Apr. 22, 2021
Riverside County Sheriff s Deputy Oscar Rodriguez fatally shot Luis Morin Jr. in a Coachella driveway on a January night in 2014 as Morin s mother looked on in disbelief.
In the weeks after the shooting, speculative whispers that Morin s death might have been the result of a romantic rivalry spread quickly through the tight-knit east valley community.