Richmond police officer involved in fatal shooting was previously suspended

One of three Richmond police officers involved in the fatal shooting of a man last month previously had been suspended from the department in a sex scandal.

Police on Tuesday identified the officers who fired at Luc Ciel, 54, of Richmond, on April 11 after he broke into a home and stabbed two people, including his son. Police responded to a public records request from this newspaper.

The officers who fired were Jeffrey Tyner, Danielle Evans, and Terrance Jackson, police spokesman Lt. Matt Stonebraker said.

According to police, they arrived to the 900 block of Wilson Avenue around 3 a.m., as Ciel was allegedly stabbing two family members, including his son. The officers shot him after he refused their commands, Stonebraker said. The family members survived.

Jackson was suspended in 2016 for his role in the “Celeste Guap” sexual exploitation case. Internal documents obtained under the police transparency law SB 1421 revealed that Jackson “engaged in (a) sexual act on duty.”

A lawsuit filed against the city of Richmond states that Jackson met a young man who used to use the alias Celeste Guap, when she attended De Anza High, where he was a resource officer. While on duty, Jackson drove to  her Richmond home and was greeted by a girl wearing only a bathrobe, according to the lawsuit.

Jackson, according to the lawsuit, asked the girl “to show him her breasts, and when she did, he groped (her breasts.” Civil rights attorney John Burris, who represented the girl, later dropped the lawsuit.

All three officers were placed on paid administrative leave after the shooting.

Staff writer Thomas Peele contributed to this story.