Calvin “Nick” Salyers is accused of killing his colleague, Scott Hutton, through his front door after Hutton stopped by his home to pick up a patrol car.
An Arkansas police officer who allegedly told a colleague that he would shoot any protesters who came to his door was charged with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a fellow officer who knocked on his door in June.
When the police brutality protests in Minneapolis began earlier this year, the accused officer, Calvin “Nick” Salyers, told a colleague that he would “shoot through the door” at any protesters who came to his residence, according to court documents.
Salyers, an officer with the Alexander Police Department since 2017, surrendered to special agents with the Arkansas State Police Criminal Investigation Division on Wednesday.
On June 3, Hutton had driven to Salyers’ home shortly after 7 p.m. to pick up a patrol car from Salyers, which was parked inside a metal structure nearby, Ryan Jacks, an investigator with the Arkansas State Police, wrote in an arrest affidavit.
In the arrest affidavit, Jacks wrote that agents with the Arkansas State Police investigated the scene and found that the single bullet had traveled through both the wooden front door and a glass storm door before striking Hutton.
They also found evidence that the gun had been pressed against the door when it was fired, and that Hutton was “standing at an angle and not squarely facing the door.” Hutton was wearing a black polo shirt, khakis, a “typical” police officer belt, and a badge when he died, the affidavit said.
When the police brutality protests in Minneapolis began after George Floyd’s death, Salyers allegedly told a fellow Alexander police officer, Sgt. Matt Wharton, that if any protesters came to his home he would “shoot through the door,” according to the affidavit.