A shooting of Sheriff Deputy Sukhdeep Gill left the Sikh man injured and his vehicle riddled with bullets near San Jose.
“It was an ambush,” Santa Clara County Sheriff Laura Smith said to Global Punjab TV after the shooting in February.
Now NBC Bay Area exclusively reports investigators are taking a closer look at the shooting and Gill has been put back on administrative leave.
Authorities said originally that Gill could have been killed if one of the four bullets had not struck his body camera.
Gill told authorities he had pulled over his vehicle in Gilroy to relieve himself when a driver pulled up, closed its lights and began firing.
Investigators called it an unprovoked attack and called it a possible hate crime.
“The sheriff’s office is actively and objectively investigating the officer involved shooting incident that occurred earlier this year. The investigation is ongoing and Deputy Gill is currently on administrative leave.”
A spokesperson declined to answer any additional questions and Gill did not return the station’s call for comment.
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