LAKEWOOD, Wash. (AP) - An off-duty Lakewood police officer who shot a man in Kitsap County has previously been cleared of wrongdoing in two fatal shootings.
The News Tribune reports (https://bit.ly/2kxsgwk ) that Officer Darrell Moore was driving his patrol car home early Sunday when he encountered 24-year-old Thomas St. Clair and shot him in the arm. St. Clair was later charged with unlawful possession of a firearm and held at the Kitsap County Jail in lieu of $50,000 bail.
Moore has been a police officer in the Pierce County city of Lakewood for four years.
Previously, he was one of two officers who fired their weapons in the fatal shooting of Patrick O’Meara in June 2013. As a Poulsbo police officer he shot and killed Matthew Netter during a DUI emphasis patrol in July 2010.
He was cleared in both shootings.
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Information from: The News Tribune, https://www.thenewstribune.com
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