Fresh evidence leads to new probe of Pasadena cop-on-cop 'horseplay' shooting, chief says

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After a Pasadena police officer shot a colleague in a parking garage, an internal investigation turned up what the city’s police chief called “horseplay.” But new evidence from a witness to the incident has led to a fresh investigation and the placement of several police officers on leave, the police chief announced Monday.Last week, after an unusual delay, the department released police cruiser dashcam video of the September shooting, which showed one officer pulling and pointing a weapon before he was shot by another officer through the windshield of a vehicle.At that time, Police Chief Gene Harris called the officers’ behavior “unsafe and out-of-policy horseplay.” The chief told The Times the officer who fired the shot was no longer on the force, and the district attorney’s office was reviewing whether the behavior was criminal in nature.But on Monday, Harris announced that a witness had come forward after the release of the video.That individual supplied “additional information, and a new investigation has been opened based on documentation received Sunday,” Harris said in a statement.

The chief said other officers involved had been placed on leave pending the outcome of the new probe.Harris called that decision a result of “how seriously we take matters like this.” Until Wednesday, Harris had kept the shooting video under wraps for nearly nine months by invoking an exception to state law requiring police shootings to be released, citing an investigation.The Sept.

7, 2025, video captures the car pulling into the parking garage behind two uniformed officers standing at the rear of a police SUV with its back open around 6:18 p.m.It does not have any sound.As the cruiser approaches the officers, the video shows the officer on the right side of the back of the SUV draw his handgun and point it directly at the approaching police cruiser in an action the poli...