Deputy-Involved Shooting

A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy accidentally fired a gun inside a courtroom last month, potentially injuring a colleague and prompting an internal investigation.

Body camera video released Friday evening shows a sheriff’s deputy’s encounter with a Virginia man, who was shot by the deputy multiple times after calling for help early Wednesday.

The former deputy resigned following the shooting after 18 months with the sheriff’s department.

A former San Diego County Sheriff’s Department deputy accused of shooting and killing a mentally ill man who had escaped custody outside the downtown jail in May has been charged with second-degree murder, the San Diego District Attorney’s Office confirmed Monday.

NBC 7 has learned the San Diego County Sheriff’s deputy that opened fire on a mentally ill man who escaped custody last week is no longer with the department. In a statement, a spokesman for the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department told NBC 7 that Deputy Aaron Russell tendered his resignation on Wednesday, May 6, five days after the deadly…

The man who was shot and killed by a San Diego County Sheriff’s Deputy last week was shot three times as he was running away, including one bullet that struck him in the back. The previously unreported details of the case come as community advocates are reacting to new information surrounding the shooting uncovered by NBC 7 Investigates. For 36-year-old…

Nicholas Bils was running away when a sheriff’s deputy shot and killed him last week, reports NBC Investigates’ Alexis Rivas.

A mother wants answers after her son was fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy on Friday. NBC 7 Investigates reporter Alexis Rivas has more.

Three days after a deputy fatally shot a man running away from state park rangers outside the county jail downtown, police are keeping an unusually tight lid on the investigation.

Law enforcement agents who fired their service weapons at suspects in three no-fatal incidents dating back to 2015 were cleared by the San Diego County District Attorney’s office of criminal liability.

NBC 7’s Omari Fleming reports from the scene with the latest details.