Tyler Rushing
A law enforcement veteran who is also a police dog expert has called the strategy used to apprehend wounded Tyler Rushing “a cluster of mistakes from the time the officers knew where Rushing was barricaded, until he was shot and killed.”
Ernest Burwell, a Thompson Falls, Mont.-based consultant, was hired by Rushing’s family to study and evaluate the July 23, 2017, shooting of the 34-year-old Ventura man at a downtown Chico title company. Rushing was behaving bizarrely on the title company’s property when he was shot once by private security guard Edgar Sanchez, whom he had attacked and cut with a small glass flower pot.
Later, Rushing was shot two more times at close range by then-Sgt. Scott Ruppel of the Chico Police Department. The Rushing family has brought a wrongful death suit against the city of Chico, Butte County and Armed Guard Private Protection Inc. in Tyler’s death.