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Luke Morrison, who fatally shot an ice cream truck driver, is on paid leave
Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009 | 4:44 p.m.
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Henderson Police Press Conference
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del.icio.usOn Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008, Chief Richard Perkins of the Henderson police department, held a press conference to address the shooting of 42-year-old Deshira Selimaj by police officer Luke Morrison.
A Henderson police officer is being accused of carrying on an inappropriate relationship with his sister-in-law since she was 15, according to court documents filed by the girl’s father.
The officer, Luke Morrison, 24, is the same officer who shot and killed an ice cream truck driver in 2008 after a traffic stop. Morrison and other officers said the woman driving the truck threatened them and one of her children with a knife, and though some witnesses disputed aspects of their account, a Clark County coroner’s jury ruled the shooting was justified.
Morrison has been on paid administrative leave for four weeks, pending the outcome of a Henderson Police Internal Affairs investigation. Officials with the department and the city declined to discuss the nature of the investigation.
Acting Human Resources Director Fred Horvath said today there has been no change in Morrison's employment status and that a review scheduled for this week has been postponed.
Clark County Family Court records show that Morrison’s father-in-law applied for a temporary protective order in April, asking the court to keep Morrison away from his daughter, then 17 and now 18. A judge declined to issue the order, ruling that there was no evidence of domestic violence to justify doing so.
Neither Morrison nor his father-in-law could be reached for comment.
In the application for the temporary restraining order, the woman’s father wrote that he became suspicious after he said his daughter skipped a day of school in March and then lied about her whereabouts.
In talking with family members, the father wrote that he learned his daughter had been observed leaving the house with Morrison in his vehicle or being dropped off at a friend’s house, only to leave with Morrison moments later.
He said he began checking his daughter’s cell phone records and discovered calls and texts between her and Morrison that dated back to 2007, when his daughter was 15 or 16 years old.
Additionally, he said another family member found a text message on his daughter’s phone after she left it at the family member’s house, which came from Morrison’s phone number and read: “Good night, I love you.”
Though his daughter’s cell phone records stopped showing calls and messages with Morrison last year, the father wrote that another family member witnessed her using a second cell phone at school.
The father wrote that the situation made him “sick to my stomach” and that Henderson Police began investigating his claims after he brought them to the department’s attention.
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We need the FBI to do a proper investigation. Another chickenhawk.
Another O.J. here. Not punished for killing the ice cream lady. Let's all pray he goes to prison for this crime. But as we all know, the cops around here will always walk. Too bad. Remember, the gang problem in the area is the police. They are the most dangerous gang on the streets.
Then go ahead and call the Crips next time you need help. A few bad apples don't mean every cop is dirty. They are, after all, humans when they were hired.
But I do agree that outside agencies should do the investigation, that way people won't be claiming that the cops are just covering up their own.
Metro runs you down and Henderson shoots you or preys on children. The Police are not watching their own or these things wouldn't keep making headlines.
Most cops are great and work hard. It's the protect your own syndrome that has to end. Most bad cops are well known within their own departments yet protected and then the department expresses shock when something finally brings them down.
How do you become a cop around here? It most places I have lived you go from garbage collector, waste water treatment, dog catcher then take a test to be a cop.
That about right in Henderson?
The Henderson Police dept. are a joke and a waste of our tax dollars. They would much rather have another donut them actually solve a crime or help prevent one. How about starting with patrolling our neighborhoods instead of hiding in neighborhoods just waiting to write traffic tickets. Another thing how many cops does it actually take to pull one little old lady over? Like I said they are a joke. Volunteers would do a better job and save all of us millions of tax dollars. I personally know a women that reached out for police help and they never even showed up at her house. What a joke!!!!! Too busy eating those donuts.
No wonder Henderson decided to settle the case with the ice cream truck driver. If this Luke Morrison did in fact carry on a sexual relationship with a 15 year old, then one can only hope he will end up in a cell with a really bad dude who will show him what it is like being the victim.
If Luke Morrison did this-lock the sick dude up & throw away the key.
Innocent till proven guilty, but Morrison sure is shaping up to be yet another bad egg. There's too much glorification of the police, in our society. We have a climate where everybody has to walk around on eggs shells in their presence, tolerate their imperiousness and rudeness even on routine traffic stops, and woe be the poor individual who does not. Obama was right: the Cambridge, Mass cop who arrested the Harvard professor DID "act stupidly." You cannot justify what that cop did to that man, at the man's own home. The cop had already ascertained that, ineed, the man WAS IN HIS OWN HOME. There was no longer any doubt that NO CRIME was in progress. He should have said "sorry for mistake" and been on his way. But no. He had to show that home dweller WHO WAS THE BOSS. He falsely charged him with "disorderly conduct" (charges which the police immediately had to drop, because by law, you CANNOT be committing disorderly conduct in your own home), and then dragged the guy's you-know-what all the way down to the police station, in handcuffs, and had him booked and photographed. What a crock! All because Boy Blue had to show up the understandably irate professor.
Soon enough, Obama moderated his stance; the professor did, too. But did anyone notice that the cop never made a single concession? He said that he'd "never apologize" for any of his conduct. And HE was the only one who acted extra-legally and outrageously arrested an innocent man. Don't take that outrage lightly, folks. Placing a citizen of this country under arrest, handcuffing him in his own home, and taking him away to the city jail is a major act against a citizen's most basic rights and freedoms. No cop entrusted with that awesome power, should flippantly use that power just to massage his own ego.
And note how I explicitly left the issue of "race" out of my post. You don't have to be black (or hispanic) to find yourself on the wrong side of the police's tyrannical arrogance. I suddenly found myself there, too (luckily, I've never been arrested and hauled off, though).
Getting back to the misplaced "glorification" issue, there are plenty of occupations far more dangerous than being a police officer, by the way. Statistically, driving a delivery truck or being a farmer is more dangerous than being a police officer in this country. I was surprised to learn that there have been 15 LV Metro officers killed in the line of duty, EVER. We practically lose that many construction workers, in one year.
Any death is a death too many, but the cops need to be put in their place. Far too many of them behave like the law doesn't apply to them and that citizens are to shut-up and kowtow in their presence. And don't get me started on how well they're paid and how much fraudulent overtime they claim.
What a scumbag. He should already be in jail for killing the ice-cream lady. If this grown ass man was messing with my daughter at 15, he'd be a permanently missing person.
No comment on the ice cream lady, Probably justifiable (although sad). If you pull a weopon on a cop, you sometimes pay with your life.
However this case has nothing to do with that. Sounds like he needs to be kicked off the force and locked up for that. A true embarrasment to all of the good cops in Nevada. Wonder if this story made the Honolulu paper yet?
This guy is a bad cop.
Well at least he was just a cop and not a senator.
Once upon a time in purgatory, john ensign and luke morrison were walking along. They had been warned on the way in. "One horny thought and it's down time forever for you johns!"
A little girl bent down to sniff some flowers. They disappeared.
Poof!
I forgot the Poof!
I meant Poof! They disappeared.
clearly the girl was keen to meet him, she had her own brains, she is clearly agreeable to being in a relationship with the guy... she could easily have said no, but one wonders if she initiated the relationship, just because she is 15 does not make her innocent, the law should always understand this..
in europe teens frequent night clubs, have relationships with older guys etc, but this does not turn them or the guy into freaks etc, they are simply doing what they feel is right for them.. as most people have when they were younger..
i bet many of you had a crush on a cute teacher and given half the chance you would have, not even giving the law a second thought..
and before you try and judge me i am just putting a different perspective forward...
That's why there are statutes about messin' with the kids.
In fact simply because she was so new to life, our society protects her with statutes. Yes, she was thinking. And she may well have been scheming. And very young!
What they do in Europe or China has absolutely no bearing on the fact that in our semi-civilized society, there is this funny natural tendency to view with some concern the actions some feel appropriate (" they are simply doing what they feel is right for them.. as most people have when they were younger..")
but the rest of us see as simple child molestation.
I, for one, am impressed that you are capable of recognizing the fact that this kind of thought pattern is typical of youthful (ie. immature, selfish, impulsive, irrational) thought patterns/behavior tendencies.
Just the fact that the perpetrator may have also had the outlook of a child does not dismiss his crime against one.
Seriously markp?
15 year olds make very bad decisions when left to their own devices. Only a perverted adult male would engage in a relationship with his 15 year old SISTER IN LAW!
It is normal for teenagers to have crushes on older people, it is sick and perverted for any adult to pursue a 15 year old, and it's illegal.
the henderson police look like idiots!!!
absolute idiots!!!
If it started after after she turned 16 and wasn't his sister-in-law, I could understand someone trying to rationalize this. I don't necessarily have anything against teenagers dating older, as long as they are 17 or 18, but when you are a teacher or a law enforcement officer you're held to a higher standard. Oh wait, this is Vegas, we don't hold cops to any standards.
I went to the corner store on Russell and Whitney Ranch the other night. There was a cop sitting behind the sign for the little strip mall down the street, trying to catch people speeding on Whitney Ranch at 11pm. Really? How about you patrol my neighborhood and make sure no one is trying to break into a home. You know, fight real crime!
Speeding is a real crime, as evidenced by the staggering number of accident-related fatalities in the valley.
markp,
You are correct, but whenever the police round up a group of supposed down-loaders of child porn, their faces are plastered on the front page of the paper and thrown in jail.
Both acts gross, and both being illegal. But what's worse, looking at pictures, or actual sexual intercourse with a minor?
Why the double standard? Oh yeah, he's a cop.
I can understand (although not in any way excuse) the general bad attitude that a lot of cops seem to display. I even give the police the benefit of the doubt when they are involved in split-second, life and death decisions.
But a situation like this? Probably time for some Seppuku.
I'd rather have stop light cameras and photo radar than cops that don't do jack and abuse there power on traffic stops
It's no wonder that cops around the country are being shot and killed. Is there really a difference between a cop and a criminal? I think not.
Henderson cops have gotten away with so much s**t for so long. People are getting fed up with them. I for one think all of them should be put under a microscope. A few good apples in a barrel of rotten ones, thats HPD.
hey thumper...
i think that was henderson!!!
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/aug...
I am trying to get this straight...
The cop had a relationship with a minor who was also his sister-in-law?
Is this okay in sin city too? I would like some of those guys that said it was okay to bang on couches at Prive and other Vegas night spots to weigh in on this one.
When is it okay to act like an animal and when is it not?
Send Luke to Mexico and tell him not to come back!
Didn't I just read where Mexico lowered their age of concent to 14 years young?
I would never call the cops for anything, they are not to be trusted! Heroes? I don't think so! They chose that profession so I really don't feel bad when they get hurt or shot. Why shoot an old ice cream lady? EGO, that's why, he knew he would get away with it and watch, he will get away with this too! I hope not. So sad and I live in Henderson, I plan on moving out of here soon.
Why is it every time I see a motorist pulled over on boulder hwy. there has to be three patrol cars at the scene? Intimidation factor or so they can verify there story.
I'm not going to jump to assumptions because a guy tells another family member "Good Night, I Love You!" So, I'll wait to here the facts!
If Morrison is innocent - fine! If he's proved to be guilty as a pedophile - then I'm all for imprisoning him and throwing away the key!
Where's the AG on this one, powdering her nose, with the drug czar!
http://www.lvrj.com/news/53287742.html
Interesting. John Hambleton commits the same crime and gets gunned down in the streetand Luke Morrison gets to sit on his couch and gets paid for it. Henderson cops are out of control because those who run henderson PD are incompetent and out of control.
No, the Henderson cops are not out of control. In fact, they are in control. A bunch of barely high school graduates brainwashed by the military into becoming paid killers and rapists. The only hope is to not drive at night, and keep your daughters at home. David Roger and your other political hacks are waiting to defend their buds. What a sad state we live in...How's it going, Richard Perkins, you useless piece of Republic Waste garbage??
I've talked to a number of people that are fed up with cops here, it is not like this in other parts of the country. Maybe he'll get Woodbury to fix things, like he did for the the NHP 118 mph he-man, 109 mph no lights and siren "hero", there has never been a "bad" police shooting...yeah we have a bunch of perfect people here...these stinking corrupt thugs
Hey cop lovers, check this out.
http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/...
What a suprise here....Henderson it's the same town that has a ex stripper judge who is married to a active duty HPD officer and hears criminal cases and also when is the last time you heard of a HPD going down for thier actions on or off duty???It's not just the cops here that are out of control they have a support system here...i.e.Judges..DA's.. knowingly incompitent Public Defenders etc.. that lets this behavior continue here.When is the U.S DOJ going to get involved here???HPD already has blood on thier hands and a quick tigger to back it up...Ice cream anybody???
Read the story people, the real sicko here is the father in law. He's been having her followed and prying into her phone records since she was 15. Of course the cop must be quilty because the girl was observed talking on another cell phone at school. what more incriminating evidense does any rational person need to convict. I think that the girl was crying out for help to the only person she thought could help from this overbearing, abusive parent. The complaint was filed just a few months short of her 18th birthday in a last ditch attempt to control her before she became an adult. Why hasn't the mother or sister come forward to add to the complaint? Some men can't adjust to their little girls growing up and become over protective. Perhaps the father in law needs to go into the girls room and sit in the corner and have a good cry while holding her baby pictures.
Where is the wife is he still marry to the victim sister and why isn't the police arresting him for having sex with a minor.
LS1, are you saying the girl was crying out for help so the cop decided to help her by put his pen!s inside her?
Are you on drugs?
The question people should be asking is -> Are there any other girls who've been molested by this perv?
Another 'baby' cop in trouble. Perhaps these depts. need to up the ante in the psychological testing area for these pervs who manage to become police officers. Protect and serve? Ha - Metro refuses to patrol any neighborhood behind gates. How ridiculous! And the reason the ticket stats are going up is because, duh, it's all about the money, always has been! The media's just too stupid, or scared to point that out!
Why is he free? Why haven't they arested him? Did they ever arrest him? If you're a cop you get a oaid vacation. If you are anyone else you get shot in the back.
The only good cop is a dead cop!
So, we have people threatening police officers!
Too bad people do not know that family. The family and the officer's ex-wife are known for fabricating stories. The family does not believe in divorce. The ex-wife probably was upset with the officer because they were getting a divorce. Nothing criminal was found. So, perhaps before folks make assumptions, the facts should be considered.
In Nevada ANYONE that has sex will someone understand 16 years old, whether it's consensual or not, has to be charged with a crime. If convicted the person will be subject to Nevada's mandatory minimum requirements that could result in a sentence if life in prison. Look up Michelle Taylor sentencing on YouTube.
She didn't even have sexual contact and she is sitting in an Elko prison because the prosecutor did not offer her an option for a plea bargain.
If the officer is offered & accepts a plea bargain he will be registered as a sex offender for life.
What's amazing is youths who have consensual sex will be subject to the same sentencing as Michelle Taylor, this officer, & the real pedophiles.
The hysteria around the sex offender laws are ruining the lifestyle of youthful exploration with sex.
The average age of sex offenders in our nation us 14 years old. The sex registry is being populated with more youths & young adults than the deviant sexual predators. Taxpayers are funding law enforcement with the burden of keeping track of the leper colony the laws are creating. The devinant criminals are being lost in the cracks while the responsible 'sex offenders' are checking for life.
The intent if the sex laws do not separate real criminals from the predators. We have to reform these laws.
in Texas 100 people a week ate being registered as sex offenders. one in thirty seven people in the united states ate convicted felons. if this pattern Contined the US will have one in four people as felins