"A judge has ordered Ricardo Gonzalez Ruiz, whom Berkeley police shot at the end of a nearly hour-long standoff in April, to be tried on 10 felony charges and one misdemeanor. Two Berkeley police officers, a sergeant and a detective testified before Superior Court Judge Thomas Reardon during Ruiz's day-long preliminary hearing Friday. Police had previously released information about the guns they found in Ruiz's apartment, a shotgun and a compressed air rifle, and that there had been evidence someone had fired the air rifle."
"On Friday for the first time, officers who had been at the scene spoke publicly about when they confronted Ruiz and how the evidence also indicated someone had fired pellets through skylights in Ruiz's ceiling toward a roof where officers had taken up positions. Ruiz, 34, sat quietly throughout most of the hearing Friday, occasionally speaking in hushed tones with his public defender or jotting notes with a golf pencil."
Ricardo Gonzalez Ruiz was arrested after activating a stun gun during an anti-Trump protest and was shot by Berkeley police at the end of a nearly hour-long standoff. A judge ordered Ruiz to be tried on 10 felony charges and one misdemeanor after a preliminary hearing where two officers testified. Police recovered a shotgun and a compressed air rifle from Ruiz’s apartment and found evidence that the air rifle had been fired. Officers reported pellets were shot through skylights toward a roof where officers had positioned themselves. Ruiz underwent a court-ordered fitness evaluation, switched to a public defender, and prosecutors consolidated charges from 17 felonies to 11.
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