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Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2009 | 12:28 p.m.
Luke Morrison
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A Henderson police officer involved in a fatal shooting in 2008 and later accused of having an inappropriate relationship with his minor sister-in-law has resigned from the Henderson Police Department.
Officer Luke Morrison offered his resignation Monday, Henderson Acting Human Resources Director Fred Horvath said. No reason was given for Morrison’s resignation.
Morrison had been on paid administrative leave since July, pending the outcome of an internal affairs investigation. City officials have declined to say what prompted the investigation, but Horvath said Morrison offered his resignation after going through a pre-disciplinary hearing.
“It was in conjunction with that entire process,” Horvath said.
Horvath said Morrison was not asked to resign, nor was there pressure placed upon him to do so.
“We would never put somebody in that position,” he said.
According to Clark County Family Court records, Morrison’s father-in-law attempted to seek a protective order in April to keep Morrison away from his then-17-year-old daughter, who is the sister of Morrison’s wife. The father-in-law accused Morrison of carrying on an inappropriate relationship with the girl since she had been 15.
A judge declined to issue the order, saying there was no evidence of domestic violence, which must be shown to justify a protective order. No criminal charges have been filed against Morrison.
Morrison is the officer who shot and killed Deshira Selimaj at a traffic stop in 2008 after he and fellow officers testified that Selimaj, whose husband had been pulled over, arrived at the scene, then became combative and lunged at officers with a knife.
A Clark County coroner’s jury ruled the shooting to be justified, but the ruling was not without controversy, as some witnesses disputed the police account of the events leading to the shooting.
Selimaj’s widower, Zyber Selimaj, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Henderson, which the city settled last month for $700,000. Though city officials said they maintain that Morrison acted correctly, they said it would be less expensive to settle than to litigate the case.
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What a prince.
Horvath said Morrison was not asked to resign, nor was there pressure placed upon him to do so.
"We would never put somebody in that position," he said.
Why not? I would, if I thought it was in both the employee and the employers best interest...
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Gee, now if it was his-mother in law, instead of just a jailbait sister in law, he might have a book rights to his life story, Now I probably will see him guarding the parking lot at Walmart. As the saying goes, don't smoke em, choke em. Now, ladies, if you go out with this guy, remember, watch out for your little sister.
Maybe they can try him an Polanski together. Make it a two for one deal!
shanfrina -- what makes you think he was LDS, and what exactly could it possibly have to do with this Discussion?
THIS SCUMBAG NEEDS TO DO 15 YRS PLUS IN STATE PRISON
Wow, Sun -- that's a lot of "Comment removed by staff."
Stevem,
Is that you in the picture?
He is LDS, I read it in a earlier story. He is also clearly a loose cannon, and hopefully the feds will get involved with this punk, because Nevada or Henderson will not.
"A judge declined to issue the order, saying there was no evidence of domestic violence..."
That's how things work in this town. Sounds like the good ol' boy network in action again. As if sexual assault upon a minor doesn't warrant a protective order. Men merely accused -not convicted, mind you- of stalking, have orders like this slapped on them all the time.
You know, I only half jokingly say that the rest of us would actually be safer if we had no cops and no court system in this valley, instead of the cops and judges who ARE in power and run this valley for themselves.
Classic LDS Nevada story...even the part of; "no charges have been filed".
Is he LDS? When I lived in Henderson, it was not uncommon for LDS adult men (in their twenties or thirties) to be dating and/or marrying girls still in high school.
Sometimes we catch one, or maybe two. Now if he was on the run for 30 years and a movie director there would be calls for him to go free of all charges!