Walnut Creek police identify five officers involved in fatal police shooting

WALNUT CREEK — An officer with nearly two decades of experience and another with only a year on the police force were two of the five involved in last weekend’s fatal shooting of a man, authorities said Friday.

Officer Tammy Keagy, a 17-year-veteran of the department and Officer Melissa Murphy, in her first year, were among the five names released by Police Chief Thomas Chaplin on Friday. Also involved in the fatal shooting of 23-year-old Miles Hall on Arlene Lane last Sunday were Sgt. Holley Connors, and officers KC Hsiao and Matt Smith.

Connors has been with the department for 12 years. Smith has been there six years. Hsiao is a four-year veteran.

Chaplin released the information in replay to a public records request by this newspaper.

Officers shot Hall after responding to Sandra Court on reports he was threatening his mother. They found him on Arlene Lane carrying what Chaplin said Friday was an “iron bar with a pointed end,” and two fired guns at him after attempts to stop him with bean bags failed.

Police have not identified the two officers who fired the shots.

Hall later died at a hospital.

The officers wore body cameras, and Chaplin said the department plans to release footage of those “as soon as we can” next week following an investigation by the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office that still was active Friday.

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