Could he have prevented the shooting? Nobody knows. In the United States, a New Jersey police officer will be tried on November 5 for professional misconduct, after “voluntarily abstaining from performing his duties as a police officer,” the local prosecutor’s office explains to the AP news agency.
Franklin Township Police Sergeant Kevin Bollaro is accused of failing to quickly intervene in an emergency: a shooting that occurred in Pittstown on August 1, in the center of the state. In question? Two police stops: the first at an ATM, the second at… a pizzeria, where he reportedly stayed for almost an hour.
The agent even assured his superiors that he was patrolling the area, while on his way to buy a pizza. But surveillance cameras and GPS data from his vehicle proved the officer’s lie.
“GPS data also revealed that Kevin Bollaro spent approximately five consecutive hours, from approximately 11:27 pm to 4:33 am, at Locust Grove Cemetery, during which no police activity was recorded,” prosecutors in the case added.
Fatal shooting
And the shooting, reported by several witnesses, was dramatic: two people, ages 33 and 29, were found dead in a house a few meters from the place where the shooting was reported.
The victims, a veterinarian named Lauren Semanchik and her new boyfriend Tyler Webb, were shot to death by the young woman’s ex-husband… a New Jersey police lieutenant, Ricardo Santos, who then committed suicide.
According to his lawyer, interviewed by the New York Post, “nothing Kevin Bollaro did or did not do that day would have had an impact or could have prevented” the murders. He will be tried on charges of professional misconduct and falsifying public records for lying in his report about the shooting.
Source: BFM TV
