Dallas officer fired for fatally shooting woman
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Christopher Hess (Fox 4)
The Dallas police officer facing charges for fatally shooting a woman has been fired.
Officer Christopher Hess turned himself in last month on a charge of aggravated assault by a public servant.
In January, Hess and another officer were investigating a suspicious vehicle that they thought was stolen.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Hess said Genevive Dawes backed a car toward him and the other officer after crashing into a squad car. The officers shot and killed Dawes.
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A Dallas County grand jury indicted Hess last month but not the other officer.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Interim Dallas Police Department Chief David Pughes said an internal affairs investigation concluded that Hess violated the department's felony traffic stop policy, use of deadly force policy and placed a person in greater danger than necessary.