On January 3, 1985, petitioner ran out of the 75th Precinct house, with his weapon drawn, in response to a complaint from an individual previously unknown to him, that he had just been threatened by a man with a gun. After commandeering the vehicle of a fellow officer, petitioner stopped behind a civilian matching the description of the gunman, exited the vehicle with his weapon drawn, and in an apparent accident, shot and killed an unarmed civilian, Darryl Dodson.
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