‘I’m a cop, I can do whatever I want ‘ off-duty policeman shouts before ‘executing guy in bar’

‘I’m a cop, I can do whatever I want ‘ off-duty policeman shouts before ‘executing guy in bar’

Daily Mail ^ | Dec 25, 2011 | Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on Friday, December 30, 2011 3:59:51 AM by bkopto

An off-duty police officer has been charged with executing a man in a sports bar – after an argument over a game of darts.

Riverside County sheriff’s deputy Dayle Long, 42, allegedly shot Samuel Vanettes, 36, three times, leaving him to die on the floor of the bar in Murrieta, California.

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An altercation allegedly broke out after the police officer told one of the friends ‘I’m better at darts than you are’, Chris Hull, 39, told Patch.com.

‘My buddy says, “Aw, you suck at darts”. (The man) says, “That’s why I’m a cop, I can do whatever I want to do”.’

Hull tsaid his friend asked; ‘Really, you can do anything?’

The police officer then pulled out his gun, Hull claimed and after the group repeatedly asked him to put it away he ‘pops three rounds into my friend Sam’.