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Sam Levin in Los Angeles

In a rare move, Los Angeles ex-deputy is charged in 2019 fatal shooting

A snapshot of Ryan Twyman wearing sunglasses and leaning his head on the smiling woman next to him.
Ryan Twyman was killed in 2019 after Los Angeles sheriff’s deputies shot into the car he was in. Photograph: Courtesy the Twyman family

The Los Angeles district attorney has filed manslaughter charges against a former sheriff’s deputy who fatally shot an unarmed man in 2019, an extremely rare prosecution for an on-duty officer killing in the US.

Andrew Lyons, 37, is facing charges of voluntary manslaughter and two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm for the 6 June 2019 killing of Ryan Twyman, in Willowbrook in south LA, the district attorney’s office announced on Thursday.

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