The three officers who fired dozens of shots at 23-year-old Erik Salgado claimed he tried to ram them with a stolen Dodge Charger, which the previous District Attorney’s office concluded they…
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA – OCTOBER 4: Amanda Majail-Blanco, Erik Salgado’s sister, holds a laminated graphic honoring her brother outside City Hall in Oakland, Calif., on Monday, October 4, 2021. Salgado was shot and killed by CHP officers in June 2020. OAKLAND — The California Highway Patrol will pay $7 million to settle a civil lawsuit alleging wrongdoing by three officers who in 2020 shot and killed a 23-year-old man and wounded his girlfriend, court records show.
Salgado and his girlfriend were driving in a Dodge Charger that had been reported stolen from a San Leandro dealership weeks earlier when CHP Sgt. Richard Henderson and officers Eric Hulbert and Donald Saputa fired a total of 18 shots at the vehicle. The officers, part of an anti-car theft task force, would later claim the Dodge attempted to ram them.
Last year, the previous Alameda County District Attorney administration under Nancy O’Malley declined to charge the officers, but stopped short of accepting their version of events, writing in a report that prosecutors were “unable to refute” what the officers claimed and that “questions remain” about exactly what happened.
“The officers fired their guns as if Salgado was a shooting gallery target,” Burris said in a news release. “The officers’ conduct was inhumane and a reckless disregard for human life for which they should be criminally prosecuted.”
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