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ALEXANDER, Ark. — An Arkansas police officer who told a colleague he would “shoot through the door” any protesters who came to his home has been charged with killing a fellow officer who knocked on his door last month, court records show.
Calvin Nicholas “Nick” Salyers, 33, of Alexander, is charged with manslaughter in the June 3 slaying of 36-year-old Scott Hutton, who was shot through Salyers’ front door.
Salyers turned himself in to state troopers Thursday, according to the Arkansas State Police. He was booked into the Saline County Jail with bail set at $15,000.
State police officials said last month that Saline County deputies were called around 7:12 p.m. June 3 to Salyers’ home, where they found the mortally wounded Hutton lying on the ground outside the residence. Hutton was taken to a hospital in Little Rock, where doctors pronounced him dead.
The following day, the Alexander Police Department described the shooting as accidental. On a GoFundMe page set up by the department to help Hutton’s widow, it stated he died in the line of duty.
According to an arrest affidavit, Salyers had previously threatened to shoot protesters through his door. Salyers, who has been an Alexander police officer since 2017, made the statement in late May or early June, when protests over the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers began to get violent.
Salyers is accused of making the comments to Alexander police training officer Sgt. Matt Wharton, according to Special Agent Ryan Jacks with the Arkansas State Police Criminal Investigation Division. It is unclear why Salyers thought protesters might show up at his home.
“Sgt. Wharton told me that he instructed Officer Salyers that he could not do that because it was reckless and negligent,” Jacks wrote in the arrest affidavit. “Wharton stated that they could not shoot anyone without identifying them first and identify(ing) that there was a threat.”
The document accuses Salyers of acting recklessly when he shot Hutton.
Read the entire arrest affidavit below.
Cop who threatened to kill protesters shoots, kills colleague who knocked on door, affidavit says
Calvin Nicholas “Nick” Salyers, 33, of Alexander, is charged with manslaughter in the June 3 slaying of 36-year-old Scott Hutton, who was shot through Salyers’ front door.
Salyers turned himself in to state troopers Thursday, according to the Arkansas State Police. He was booked into the Saline County Jail with bail set at $15,000.
State police officials said last month that Saline County deputies were called around 7:12 p.m. June 3 to Salyers’ home, where they found the mortally wounded Hutton lying on the ground outside the residence. Hutton was taken to a hospital in Little Rock, where doctors pronounced him dead.
The following day, the Alexander Police Department described the shooting as accidental. On a GoFundMe page set up by the department to help Hutton’s widow, it stated he died in the line of duty.
According to an arrest affidavit, Salyers had previously threatened to shoot protesters through his door. Salyers, who has been an Alexander police officer since 2017, made the statement in late May or early June, when protests over the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers began to get violent.
Salyers is accused of making the comments to Alexander police training officer Sgt. Matt Wharton, according to Special Agent Ryan Jacks with the Arkansas State Police Criminal Investigation Division. It is unclear why Salyers thought protesters might show up at his home.
“Sgt. Wharton told me that he instructed Officer Salyers that he could not do that because it was reckless and negligent,” Jacks wrote in the arrest affidavit. “Wharton stated that they could not shoot anyone without identifying them first and identify(ing) that there was a threat.”
The document accuses Salyers of acting recklessly when he shot Hutton.
Read the entire arrest affidavit below.
Cop who threatened to kill protesters shoots, kills colleague who knocked on door, affidavit says
