Officer Acquitted For 2019 Shooting Of Pamela Turner

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By Bry'onna Mention· Updated October 11, 2022

Baytown Police Officer Juan Delacruz was acquitted on Tuesday for the killing of Pamela Turner in 2019.

After a five-daylong trial and deliberating for several hours over two days, a Harris County jury found Delacruz not guilty of one count of first-degree aggravated assault by a public servant. 

Three years ago, Delacruz, who is Hispanic, gunned down Turner, a 44-year-old Black woman in an apartment

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