Charges Filed Against Charger Who Was Shot

Foley Was Shot 3 Times By Off-Duty Officer

POSTED: 5:23 pm PDT October 11, 2006

SAN DIEGO -- The district attorney has filed charges against Chargers player Steve Foley, who was shot by an off-duty police officer last month.

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Audio: Police Interview With Coronado Police Officer Aaron Mansker, Part 1
Audio: Police Interview With Coronado Police Officer Aaron Mansker, Part 2
Audio: Police Interview With Coronado Police Officer Aaron Mansker, Part 3
Audio: Police Interview With Lisa Maree Gaut, Part 1
Audio: Police Interview With Lisa Maree Gaut, Part 2
Images: Foley Shooting

On Wednesday, officials announced that they had filed two misdemeanor driving-under-the influence charges against the linebacker. An arraignment is scheduled for a week from Wednesday.

Each charge carries a maximum sentence of one year in jail.

According to police reports, at 3:30 a.m. on Sept. 3, Foley was driving erratically when Mansker began to follow him. After Mansker reportedly observed the vehicle weaving and its speed ranging from 30 mph to 90 mph, he ordered Foley to pull over at a red light, but Foley drove away in his restored 1971 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme. For nearly 30 miles, Mansker followed behind in his black Mazda, ordering Foley's car to pull over to no avail. Mansker called the California Highway Patrol, but was told no units were in the area.

Finally, when Foley reached his home, he emerged from the car and was confronted by Mansker.

According to a taped interview with investigators obtained by the San Diego Union-Tribune, Mansker said Foley "kept coming toward me" and that he identified himself as a police officer and told Foley to stop before drawing his gun and firing a warning shot. But Foley kept nearing, and reached into his waistband.

"I thought for sure he's going to pull his gun and I'm gone," Mansker told investigators. He fired his gun several times and hit Foley three times, twice in the lower left leg and once in the thigh.

But Lisa Maree Gaut, who was Foley's passenger, offered a different account. She told investigators that she never heard Mansker identify himself as a police officer and said she and Foley were under the belief that Foley was being followed because he is a professional athlete.

Gaut has been charged with drunken driving and assault. Prosecutors said she got behind the wheel of Foley's car and tried to run Mansker down after the shooting. She is out on bail and faces up to five years in prison if convicted of all charges.

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