El Dorado County jury convicts man of killing CHP officer
By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee
An El Dorado County jury Wednesday convicted David Charles Zanon of running down and killing a California Highway Patrol officer and attempting to murder other officers.
The first-degree murder conviction with special allegations makes Zanon, 40, eligible for the death penalty.
Zanon killed California Highway Patrol Officer Scott Russell in a 30-mile, high-speed chase in which Russell was struck and killed along Highway 50 in Shingle Springs while attempting to stop the chase with a spike strip on July 31, 2007.