Yorba Linda : Police Shooting Victim May Also Have Fired
Dwayne Earl Davis, 19, the La Habra man fatally shot by a Brea police officer early Sunday morning, may have fired one round himself after being shot and staggering back into his girlfriend’s house, police said.
An autopsy, however, revealed just one bullet wound on Davis, apparently caused by the police officer’s round, said Capt. Jim Oman of the Brea Police Department.
Oman said Davis’ girlfriend, Linda Allen, 21, had called police to her parents’ Lakehaven Way home in Yorba Linda on the 911 emergency line after she and Davis got into a fight.
Police surrounded the house and called Davis on the telephone to ask him to surrender, Oman said.
After several telephone calls, Davis walked out the front door. When ordered to drop his handgun, Davis instead raised the weapon and turned toward police officers. He was shot once in the chest, Oman said.
Davis then staggered back into the house and collapsed in the hallway some 60 feet away. Then a second shot was heard and Allen screamed, “He shot himself!” Oman said.
Police investigators, however, said they could find no evidence that the gun had been fired in the house.
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