NEW YORK — A New York police
officer has been convicted of assault for shooting her then-girlfriend during
an argument. But the officer was acquitted of attempted murder in a shooting
she called self-defense.
Ekeythia Dunston will be fired
and could face up to 25 years in prison after Monday's verdict. Defense lawyer
Edgar De Leon says Dunston is gratified by her acquittal on the attempted
murder count.
She and former girlfriend
Erica Legall quarreled about text messages in August 2010. Manhattan
prosecutors say Legall hit Dunston in the head with a laundry iron, and Dunston
fired two shots with her service revolver. Legall was hit in the shoulder and
leg.
Legall also was charged with
assault, but De Leon says a grand jury declined to indict her. Court records
weren't immediately available.