Jury Finds Fatal Danville Officer Shooting Of Tyrell Wilson Was A Homicide

CBS San Francisco

July 25, 2022

A jury at a Contra Costa County coroner's inquest hearing Friday unanimously found the death of a transient who was shot by a Danville police officer last year to be a homicide.

The jury in the hearing looking at the death of 33-year-old Tyrell Wilson in Danville last year unanimously found that Wilson's death came "at the hands of another person other than by accident."

Wilson died in a shooting by former Danville Police Officer Andrew Hall on March 13, 2021, when Hall responded to reports of a man throwing rocks off the Sycamore Valley overpass onto Interstate Highway 680. At the intersection just east of the overpass, Hall confronted the 32-year-old Wilson. Hall's bodycam footage later showed Wilson was holding a folding knife.

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