Pulse Shooting Update: OPD Officers who fired shots
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Earlier today the Orlando Police Department released the names of the officers that fired on the shooter accused of killing 49 people at The Pulse nightclub in Orlando on Sunday morning.
The officers who fired at the Pulse Nightclub shooter:
- Officer working extra duty at Pulse: Officer Adam Gruler, member of OPD since 2001
- First Patrol Unit On Scene (Also a SWAT Member): Lieutenant Scott Smith, member of OPD since 1992
- First Patrol Unit On Scene (Also a SWAT Member): Sergeant Jeffrey Backhaus, member of OPD since 2004
- SWAT: Officer Timothy Stanley, member of OPD since 1998
- SWAT: Officer Kevin Easterling, member of OPD since 1994
- SWAT: Officer Andrew Bishop, member of OPD since 1994
- SWAT: Sergeant James Parker, member of OPD since 1991
- SWAT: Detective Raul Rivas, member of OPD since 1992
- SWAT: Lieutenant Jonathan Bigelow, member of OPD since 2001
- SWAT: Officer Ricardo Duenas, member of OPD since 2014
- Officer shot in the Kevlar helmet: Officer Michael Napolitano, member of OPD since 2012
