A former San Francisco police officer was charged Monday with on-duty homicide in connection to a 2017 shooting, the first such charges of their …
A former San Francisco police officer was charged Monday with on-duty homicide in connection to a 2017 shooting, the first such charges of their kind, according to the city district attorney’s office. Chris Samayoa was charged with fatally shooting Keita O’Neil, a 42-year-old Black man suspected of carjacking a California State Lottery minivan. His charges include voluntary manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, assault with a semiautomatic firearm, assault by police officer and discharge of a firearm with gross negligence, CNN reports. The judge who signed the warrant for Samayoa’s arrest set his bail at $1,000.
