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DISTRICT ATTORNEY WILL NOT CHARGE PALM SPRINGS POLICEMAN IN KILLING OF TWENTYNINE PALMS MARINE

Nearly two years to the day after an unarmed Marine was shot by two police officers in a Palm Springs parking garage, Riverside County prosecutors said Thursday that they will not file charges against the police officers. Corporal Allan DeVillena II was killed by Officers Chad Nordman and Mike Heron in the early morning hours of November 10, 2012. The Riverside County District Attorney’s Office has been reviewing the shooting for about 14 months. The DA’s decision will green-light a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by the DeVillena family against the Palm Springs Police Department and the individual officers; their lawsuit was unable to proceed while prosecutors pondered the case. DeVillena, 22, died in the driver’s seat of his car in the bottom floor of the parking garage, six bullet holes in his upper body. Police said that DeVillena, who was drunk, drove his car at two officers, striking one of them in the leg, prompting them both to open fire. At least one witness disputed the police, saying the shooting was “malicious” and that the police were “murderers.” On the night of the shooting, DeVillena and another Marine, Private First Class Clinton Harris traveled from the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms to celebrate the Marine Corps birthday in Palm Springs.

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