OFFICER PLEADS GUILTY TO CIVIL RIGHTS CHARGE

A former South Carolina police officer, charged in the 2015 videotaped fatal shooting of a fleeing man, pleaded guilty Tuesday on the eve of his federal civil rights trial.

Michael Slager, 35, who was charged last year in a three-count indictment in connection with the shooting of Walter Scott, 50, entered a guilty plea in a Charleston federal court to one count of using excessive force.

Slager, a former North Charleston officer, faces a sentence ranging from no prison time to life.