{"id":397702,"date":"2023-08-15T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=397702"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Officer-involved-in-Kagman-shooting-waives-preliminary-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Officer-involved-in-Kagman-shooting-waives-preliminary-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Officer involved in Kagman shooting waives preliminary hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The police officer involved in the Kagman shooting where a child was shot in the face has waived his preliminary hearing.<\/p>\n

DPS officer Raymond Lizama Saralu, whose service-firearm is believed to have been the gun used in the Kagman shooting, waived his right to a preliminary hearing last Friday.<\/p>\n

Because he has waived his preliminary hearing, Saralu\u2019s case will move forward with arraignment on Aug. 21, before Superior Court Presiding Judge Roberto Naraja.<\/p>\n

According to court documents, DPS dispatch received a call from off-duty officer Saralu at around 9:06pm last May 21, asking that an ambulance be sent to his residence.<\/p>\n

When first responders arrived, they found a 7-year-old boy lying in a pool of blood. He was rushed to the Commonwealth Health Center, but was later transported to Guam Memorial Hospital for surgery.<\/p>\n

Although he is recovering, the boy has reportedly lost vision in his left eye and has lost muscle control on one side of his face.<\/p>\n

Court documents state that in the ambulance, the boy allegedly told his mother that his minor uncle took a gun from Saralu\u2019s work belt, which was on a chair in his bedroom. When the victim took the gun to give it back to Saralu, the gun went off on his face. The boy reiterated this statement in a follow up interview on June 14.<\/p>\n

At Saralu\u2019s residence, officers stated that they found eight unsecured firearms, one was found near the boy and another was Saralu\u2019s service firearm, which was in its holster inside a basket covered with clothes.<\/p>\n

Police noted that several of the firearms found were in an unfinished closet that had no doors or plywood shelving, with no trigger locks and were not inside a safe.<\/p>\n

When police asked him, Saralu said he did not have a safe yet.<\/p>\n

It was only recently determined that Saralu\u2019s service firearm was the one used in the accidental shooting after a ballistics test was conducted on three of the eight firearms that were found in the home.<\/p>\n

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The CNMI Guma Hustisia or CNMI Judiciary in Susupe.<\/p>\n

-KIMBERLY B. ESMORES
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