Man thanks officer at sentencing
While high on meth, he shot at police in NLV neighborhood
Las Vegas police officer Tyler Hebb risked his own life to save the life of a man who shot at police.
As a hail of 19 police bullets struck William Alfredo Chafoya last summer, Hebb rushed to his side to stop the bleeding, a prosecutor said Tuesday before Chafoya was sent to prison.
“Never in any officer-involved shooting that I’ve ever been to, that I’ve ever worked on have I seen true acts of heroism like I saw from officer Hebb,” Chief Deputy District Attorney Jacqueline Bluth said.
The officer and his trainee, Brandon Foster, fired 26 times during a shootout in a North Las Vegas residential neighborhood in July 2017.
Police at the time said Chafoya fired five shots during the encounter, at least one into the air and then others in the direction of the officers.
Chafoya, 38, pleaded guilty last month to one count of battery with a deadly weapon resulting in substantial bodily harm and two counts of assault on a protected person while using a deadly weapon.
Ashley Elizabeth Olivetti, 31, was with Chafoya and was struck in the arm by an officer’s round during the crossfire. She pleaded guilty in October, but the details of that negotia
SENTENCE
as an unpaid, part-time reserve officer during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
During Rogers’ trial in 2010, authorities said Rogers held sleepovers at his home, during which he would drug children and give them alcohol.
When District Judge Michael Villani sentenced Rogers on June 8, 2010, he rejected his plea for leniency.
“You did some good things in your life,” Villani said at the time. “But I have to look at the harm you did to the victims. That outweighs the good by about a million times.”
Rogers had asked for leniency, saying he had cancer and needed a second kidney transplant. He would live for another eight years before dying Monday afternoon.
Nevada Department of Corrections spokesperson Brooke Santina could not reveal any details about Rogers’ death due to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, but said he died of natural causes.
When Rogers was sentenced, Susan Rush, the mother of one of his victims, asked Villani to ensure Rogers never left prison.
“The man is a monster, and he has no soul,” she said in 2010.
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