SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A man charged with killing a rookie California police officer made his first brief court appearance Monday wearing a four-inch gauze pad covering what officials said was a self-inflicted injury. Adel Sambrano Ramos was appointed a public defender during a five-minute court hearing, and spoke only to acknowledge his name. Ramos, 45, faces a murder charge that could bring him the death penalty in Wednesday’s slaying of 26-year-old Sacramento Officer Tara O’Sullivan. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW“There was nothing that could have been done to save her life,” he said after the hearing. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWJail employees immediately stopped him from further injury and took him to an outside hospital, she said.

Source: thestar June 24, 2019 17:16 UTC