Rookie LAPD officer fled to El Paso after fatal shooting

 

 

LOS ANGELES (KABC) --

The father of a former LAPD officer wanted in the murder of a 23-year-old man in Pomona drove his son to El Paso, Texas, just a few miles from the border of Mexico, to escape prosecution, a federal warrant revealed.

Henry Solis, 27, allegedly fled the state "with the intent to avoid prosecution for the crime of murder," according to the arrest warrant.

Investigators believe Solis got into a fistfight with Salome Rodriguez, Jr. that escalated into a fatal shooting in the area of Third and Main streets on March 13. Rodriguez was found with gunshot wounds to the lower torso and later died.

Soon after the alleged murder, Solis called his father Victor Solis at his Lancaster home. Victor Solis then left home and was found the next day at a family member's home in El Paso, Texas, according to an affidavit in a federal criminal complaint.

On Monday, Victor Solis, who remained in El Paso, told FBI agents that he dropped off his son at the bus station and does not know where he is.

On Tuesday, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck fired Solis, calling him a dishonor to the organization.