Appeals court rules FBI agent
immune in Ruby Ridge
shooting
The Associated Press
6/14/00 10:26 PM
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The FBI agent who killed the
wife of white separatist Randy Weaver during the Ruby
Ridge standoff is immune from state prosecution in Idaho,
a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
Sharpshooter Lon Horiuchi shot Vicki Weaver in 1992 while
she held her baby. At the time, federal agents had
converged on the family's cabin to arrest Randy Weaver on
a weapons trafficking charge. Horiuchi said he did not see
Vicki Weaver when he fired at an armed associate of
Randy Weaver.
Idaho prosecutors pursued a manslaughter charge against
Horiuchi, but the charge was dismissed by a federal judge.
A three-member panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals upheld the dismissal, ruling that Horiuchi was
acting in his official duty as a federal law enforcement
officer.
FBI Director Louis Freeh praised the ruling, saying it
"supports what I have always believed."
"No one in the FBI ever wants any situation to end
tragically," Freeh said in a statement. "The reality is that
with alarming frequency, agents must put all their training,
experience and judgment to the test and make
split-second life-and-death decisions."
The Weavers' 14-year-old son and a U.S. marshal were
also killed during the standoff.
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