Officer in fatal shooting accidentally fires into baby's crib during routine parole visit

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A San Diego police officer who killed a man in a 2015 shooting in the Midway District that is now the subject of a federal civil rights lawsuit accidentally fired his gun into a crib during a probation check in February.

Officer Neal Browder was with other officers on Bayview Heights Place about 8:40 a.m. on Feb. 20 when the shooting happened, said San Diego police Lt. Scott Wahl. He said police conducted an investigation, but he declined to give more details.

Residents at the apartment, located Friday by San Diego Union-Tribune Watchdog, described the accidental shooting.

“If my son had been in that crib, he wouldn’t be here today,” said Kimberly Espinoza, 17, who lives in the apartment with her son, Isaac, then 11 months old, her 54-year-old grandmother, and a 30-year-old uncle who was the subject of the routine probation check.

“And if he was in it, and it had missed my son, he would still be traumatized,” she said.

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http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-san-diego-officer-shoot-crib-20160508-story.html

[scscholar]

1. Why do parole officers need guns?

Too many guns.

[hobbit709]

2. do they always draw their guns when on a "routine" visit?