POSSIBLE CHARGES TO BE FILED AGAINST SAN DIEGO ROAD RAGE COP
Detectives probing why an off-duty patrolman opened fire on another motorist in Oceanside, wounding her and her 8-year-old son, will discuss possible criminal charges in the case with the District Attorney's Office, a police spokesman said. Click here for original story.
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San Diego police Officer Franklin White has not been arrested in connection with last weekend's shooting in a parking lot on Old Grove Road, but has been placed on paid leave pending the outcome of investigations into his actions.
The wounded mother and child, whose names have not been released, remain hospitalized.
White, 28, opened fire about 9:15 p.m. during a traffic dispute with the woman, a Marine's wife in her 20s who lives on the Camp Pendleton base, according to investigators.
One of the two drivers apparently cut the other off, resulting in a "road-rage incident," Poorman said earlier this week.
White, who was with his wife in a black Mercury sedan, and the woman, driving a silver four-door Honda, both pulled into a parking area in front of a Lowe's home-improvement store.
"Then there was some type of either verbal or physical altercation that ... led to the gunfire," the sergeant said.
Medics airlifted the wounded woman to Sharp Memorial Hospital and flew her son to Rady Children's Hospital. Details on their injuries were not released, but they were said to be non-life-threatening.
Police interviewed White, an Oceanside resident, that night, then released him pending further investigation.
White, a patrolman with the SDPD's Southeastern Division, has been with the department since October 2005.
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