ORLANDO, Fla. – A former Orlando police officer pleaded guilty Friday to charges of shooting into an occupied vehicle and discharging a firearm in public.
Orlando police said Officer David Johnston fired 23 times at Derek Lattimore through closed metal gates in a parking garage in February 2014. Surveillance video showed Lattimore was nearly 90 feet away.
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Police said Lattimore almost ran over an officer while fleeing police in the parking garage
Johnston told a judge that he should be given immunity because he was trying to stop a suspect in a domestic violence investigation, but the judge disagreed.
The guilty plea means that Johnston can no longer have a job in law enforcement and can never own a weapon.