A former North Texas police officer was indicted Thursday on a homicide rely within the deadly capturing of a suspect after a slow-speed car chase.
The Tarrant County grand jury indicted former Arlington police officer Robert Phillips within the Oct. 20 capturing of Jesse Fischer of Addison, Texas.
Phillips, a seven-year division veteran, was fired two days after the capturing for violating Arlington Police Division coverage. Phillips violated coverage limiting when officers could put themselves within the path of a shifting car and when they might shoot at a shifting car, Police Chief Al Jones stated.
Phillips might be sentenced to 5 to 99 years or life in jail if convicted. It was unclear from jail data if he had an lawyer.
CBS Dallas reported that it began round 2:30 p.m. when police had been referred to as to an intersection after a 911 name about an individual, later recognized as Fischer, who was slumped over in a working car.
Based on police, an officer checked on the person, who was awake, and instructed him to show his car off. As a substitute, he drove away, and a slow-speed chase of about 20 mph started.
Finally, the motive force stopped and the officers received out of their autos and started giving verbal instructions from their autos for the motive force to drop his keys.
The person drove away from the scene once more, and a slow-speed pursuit ended up on a useless finish road.
An officer — Phillips — stopped and received out of his car and stood close to the motive force's aspect door of the opposite car.
At that time, the suspect made a U-turn within the cul-de-sac and started driving towards the officer, who then fired a number of photographs, hitting the suspect, who died later at a hospital.