Dallas officer faces manslaughter in apartment shooting
By Reuters
08 September 2018 |
11:30 am
A Dallas police officer will be charged with manslaughter after mistakenly entering an apartment she thought was hers and fatally shooting the man who lived there, authorities said on Friday.
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