In October 2010, a domestic violence call to a mobile home in south Phoenix ended with 28-year-old Danny Rodriguez shot dead by Phoenix Police Officer Richard Chrisman. Rodriguez’s mother had called police reporting violent behavior. When Officers Chrisman and Sergio Virgillo arrived, the encounter escalated after Chrisman forced his way into the trailer and Rodriguez questioned the officers’ right to enter without a warrant. Prosecutors and Virgillo testified that Chrisman pressed his service weapon to Rodriguez’s head, non-lethal attempts to subdue him failed, Chrisman shot and killed Rodriguez’s dog, and then fired two shots into Rodriguez’s chest.

An autopsy attributed death to those gunshot wounds. Chrisman was arrested and charged; Virgillo testified the shooting was not justified and that the situation had been defused before the shots. In September 2013 a jury convicted Chrisman of aggravated assault but deadlocked on murder and animal cruelty; he later pleaded guilty to manslaughter and in December 2013 was sentenced to seven years in prison.

Does anyone have additional details about the moments before the shooting or about the officers’ actions inside the trailer?