2013 Southern California shootings During the massive multi-agency manhunt for
Christopher Jordan Dorner, the prime suspect in the
2013 Southern California shootings, in two separate incidents in the early morning hours of February 7, 2013, police shot at people unrelated to Dorner. Dorner was not present at either incident. Officers of the Torrance Police Department initiated the shooting in the second of these two cases. Torrance police officers first rammed the truck with their car, then opened fire. The vehicle was being driven by David Perdue who was on his way to the beach for some early morning surfing before work. Police claim that Perdue's pickup truck "matched the description" Six months after the assault, the police paid Perdue $20,000 for the damage to his truck. The city has offered Perdue a half million dollars to settle the case, but he insists on almost four million dollars. , the city has not allowed outside investigators to see the truck. In contrast, the Los Angeles Police Department paid two women who were attacked a sum of $4.2 million in damages without going to court. Upon taking office in 2020, Lacey's successor,
George Gascón, reopened the case against Chavez and Concannon. By April 13, 2023, the two officers were indicted for the shooting. Two more officers involved in the scandal, Corey Weston and Christopher Tomsic, were fired by the department and charged by the district attorney's office in 2020 for their part in a vandalism of a Jewish suspect's car. Kiley Swaine and two of his friends were arrested by Weston and Tomsic in January 2020 for suspected
mail theft. After being released, Swaine retrieved his car at a tow yard, finding it trashed with cereal and protein powder and a
swastika spray-painted on one of the back seats. In March 2023, Swaine won a $750,000 settlement in a lawsuit against the City of Torrance and the two officers. ==In popular culture==