COMPTON : Police Dept. Plans Alert for Verdict in Samoan Case
Cmdr. Hourie Taylor, acting chief of the Compton Police Department, said Monday that his 140-member department plans to go on alert when a verdict is announced in the trial of Alfred Skiles Jr., a police officer charged in the shooting deaths of two Samoan brothers.
The jury was in its third day of deliberations in the case against Skiles, the first law enforcement officer in a decade in Los Angeles County to be charged in a killing. Brothers Pouvi Tualaulelei, 34, and Itali Tualaulelei, 22, were shot a total of 19 times in the sides and backs, according to autopsy reports.
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