As he sprinted down an alleyway in April 2020, former Whittier Det. Salvador Murillo was convinced he and his fellow officers were under fire.
Murillo, an undercover detective at the time, was chasing a man who had seconds earlier jumped out of a car linked to a robbery. Three gunshots rang out. Murillo said that when he saw the fleeing man, Nicholas Carrillo, reach toward his waist, he feared he would be shot.
“I didn’t want a bullet in my chest,” Murillo told jurors in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom Thursday…