Mercury News: San Jose police officer charged with assaulting pregnant girlfriend, home shooting
MORGAN HILL — A San Jose police officer has been taken off duty after prosecutors charged him with assaulting his pregnant girlfriend as part of a pair of alleged domestic violence incidents from the past year, authorities said.
Timothy Jason Hackney, 31, who was sworn in with the San Jose Police Department in 2018, was also charged with with recklessly firing his service weapon in their home with their young child inside.
He was arraigned Tuesday in a Morgan Hill courtroom on a felony count of willfully discharging a firearm with gross negligence, two misdemeanor counts of domestic violence battery, one felony count of false imprisonment and a misdemeanor count of maliciously removing or obstructing someone’s wireless device.
Hackney had been out of jail custody on $66,000 bail since his June 13 arrest by Morgan Hill police. A few days later, he was served with a gun-violence restraining order in which authorities temporarily seized his personally owned guns.