A California murderer who shot out a deputy's eye and killed a volunteer chaplain in 1994 has been granted parole years earlier than originally expected.
Los Angeles DA George Gascon in spotlight for ignoring prison recommendation in attempted-murder caseDerek Eugene Pettis, a 24-year-old gang member, found himself handcuffed in the back seat of a squad car after a drunken bar fight in 1994, butDeputy Terrence Wenger, 31, and volunteer chaplain Bruce Bryan, a 39-year-old in the car on a ride-along, took Pettis home to sober up.
Back on June 18, 1994, Pettis grabbed the gun from an unconscious Wenger and fired multiple shots at him, but only one struck – costing the deputy an eye. Then the killer turned on Bryan, who tried to flee. In addition to his work as a volunteer chaplain, Bruce Bryan ran a mission for troubled youths at his own home and got them work in a gardening business, according to his brother, Floyd. He said some of the men in this photo grew up to work in the computer industry.
"I just have a major problem with the law changes affecting people of this nature," Bryan told Fox News Digital."This was a violent crime. This is the top of violent crimes other than maybe rape. Anybody who shoots anybody in law enforcement is really making a statement that they don’t care who they kill because if you’re going to kill law enforcement, you’re going to kill anybody.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, above, will have final say over whether Derek Pettis can be freed on parole for the murder of Los Angeles volunteer chaplain Bruce Bryan.
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