UCSD Grad Student Accused in CHP Officer’s Shooting Pleads Insanity
Posted: Tue May 10, 2022 10:40 pm
SAN DIEGO—A 25-year-old graduate student accused of trying to grab a California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer’s gun during an altercation on Interstate 8 in Mission Valley, leaving the lawman shot in the leg, pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity on May 10 to charges that include attempted murder of a peace officer. Yuhao Du, 25, is accused of lunging for CHP Officer Antonio “Tony” Pacheco’s service weapon on April 27, causing the gun to fire as the two men grappled over the pistol. The events that led to the shooting began at about 6:15 p.m., when Du, a graduate student studying physics at the University of California–San Diego, crashed his vehicle on eastbound Interstate 8 near the I-805 overpass, according to the CHP. ...
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