Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony wouldn’t have been hired as a cop years ago if he had revealed — as he was supposed to — that he once shot and killed a man, says the police boss who hired him.
“Knowing [what we know] now, I would have not have hired him,” Duncan Foster, the retired chief of the Coral Springs Police Department, said Monday.
Newspaper accounts from 1993 report that Tony, then 14, killed an 18-year-old man when both were in the Badlands neighborhood of Philadelphia, an area known for violence and open-air drug dealing. While a news article said he faced a murder charge, Tony told the South Florida Sun Sentinel on Sunday that he did not think he was technically “charged with a crime" and that it was a case of self-defense.