Officer charged with assisting --
A former police officer was charged Wednesday with assisting a criminal -- not murder, a charge on which authorities preliminarily held him -- in a shooting that killed a security guard and wounded four other people outside a pub early New Year's Day.
A former police officer was charged with assisting a criminal after authorities said he gave a handgun to a man who minutes later fatally shot a security guard during a fight after a tavern's New Year's Eve party.