Officer identified in South Lake Tahoe shooting

The name of the South Lake Tahoe Police Officer involved in the June 15 shooting of 22-year-old Kris Jackson has been released.

Officer Joshua Klinge was the officer who responded to a 2:40 a.m. call about a woman screaming and crying at the Tahoe Hacienda Inn on Lake Tahoe Blvd. The officer shot Jackson in the torso after feeling threatened according to earlier reports. Jackson died shortly afterwards at Barton Memorial Hospital.

Klinge remains on paid administrative leave as the investigation continues according to South Lake Tahoe Police Chief Brian Uhler.

The SLT police department as well as the El Dorado County District Attorney's Office and Sheriff's Department are still reviewing the case. Uhler said he cannot comment on the ongoing investigation.

Sacramento attorney Alan Laskin is representing the family of Jackson and pursuing wrongful death and violation of civil rights. A call into his personal injury law office has not been returned to South Tahoe Now. It is still unclear who released Klinge's name, whether it was due to the Freedom of Information Act or by other means.

Klinge was part of a lawsuit in Ceres, CA where he was a police officer prior to coming to South Lake Tahoe in January, 2015. In that suit, Plaintiff Kenya Moseley argued that Klinge and fellow officer James Yandell "exercised an unwarranted and unlawful use of lethal force in taking him into custody," according to court documents. Yandell, who was acting as the field training officer for Klinge, shot Moseley as he tried to run away from the officers in May of 2007. The case was settled and dismissed.

Klinge was involved in other newsworthy events while in Ceres, both of which involved his police canine Duke. In one story in Ceres news, back in October, 2014, the dog was assisting in apprehending a man who was in a scuffle with another officer. Duke bit into the leg of the officer, causing serious injuries.