A retired Metropolitan Police Officer is facing involuntary manslaughter charges after he fatally shot a 25-year-old female library officer during ASP baton training.
The incident took place at the Anacostia Neighborhood Library in DC on Thursday at around 3:30 p.m. when former Office Jesse Porter accidentally shot Maurica Manyan during the training.
Other library officers who witnessed the events said that the group was about to take a photo together at the end of the training when Manyan asked to remove her mask.
Porter then grabbed a gun he thought was a replica training firearm and jokingly fired toward the victim, but it turned out the gun was real with live ammunition.
“I thought I had my training gun,” Porter reportedly asked. “Why did I do this? Is she ok?”
He also performed CPR on Manyan, desperately trying to keep her alive.
“There are props and firearm lookalikes that are in a training environment. They were present in this environment,” Chief Police Contee III said.
“But why and what kind of was in his mind at this time, I don’t know the answer to that.”
