By Bob Walsh
An Butte County, CA. jury did something really unusual on Tuesday and found a Police Officer guilty in an on-duty homicide last Thanksgiving.
Patrick Feaster was a cop in the small town of Paradise. Dash cam footage shows Feaster shooting Andrew Thomas, 26, in the neck after a short high-speed chase which ended in Thomas crashing his car. Thomas' wife was in the car and died at the scene. Thomas hung in there for a few weeks after the shooting.
Thomas was climbing out a window of the car, which was laying on it's side. Officer Feaster alleges that the shooting was in fact unintentional. The jury didn't buy it.
Officer Feaster was sacked last February. He has been free on bail and will continue to be so until his sentencing in December. He is facing five years for involuntary manslaughter.
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