COMPTON, Calif.
A California Highway Patrol officer was under investigation Monday for allegedly shooting her husband, 31-year-old Marcus Lavar Lemons in Compton, to death Saturday night, authorities said.
Marcus Lavar Lemons, 31, died after the shooting, according to a coroner's investigator, who said an autopsy was expected to be completed Tuesday.
The officer, whose name was withheld, reported fatally shooting her husband in the upper body at 11:07 p.m. Saturday in the 400 block of Amantha Avenue, saying he was "verbally and physically combative," sheriff's Deputy Rick Pedroza said.
The CHP officer was not arrested, but her husband's death was under investigation.
The couple ate at a T.G.I. Friday's restaurant before heading to a Carl's Jr. restaurant and getting into a fight.
The slain man's 13-year-old son, Demarco Lemons, said he used to bowl with his father "and sometimes he'd train me to be better at football."
Darian Milow, the man's former fiancee, questioned Lemons' aggressiveness.
"We were together for years, and he's never touched me in any way; so for them to portray him as this monster is unbelievable," Darian Milow said.
A friend seconded that opinion.
"He would never hurt anybody. Nobody. Nobody. It's not him. It's not," Crystal Barhee said.
Sheriff's detectives will hand their case over to the District Attorney's Office, and prosecutors will decide whether to charge the woman with a crime.
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