Derek Carlile
Local news reports A former Marysville police officer, who was fired last year after his 3-year-old son fatally shot his 7-year-old sister with the officer’s handgun, may get his job back. An arbitrator this week determined that the city should rehire Officer Derek Carlile, 32, 0f Camano Island, according to his former lawyer, David Allen. Carlile was fired in May following an internal investigation into the March 2012 shooting that left his daughter, Jenna, dead. The city indicated Carlile would be reinstated. “The City is prepared to carry out the arbitrator’s ruling and bring him back to a Police Officer position in the Marysville Police Department,” the city said in a statement. It wasn’t immediately known whether Carlile would return to the department. According to Snohomish County prosecutors, Carlile left his loaded .38-caliber revolver in the family’s van with their four children unattended while he and his wife stepped outside to chat with a friend in Stanwood. While the parents were out of the vehicle, the boy climbed out of his car seat, retrieved the gun and fired, killing the girl. Prosecutors charged Carlile with manslaughter, saying he was criminally negligent for leaving the gun where his son could reach it, but a jury was unable to reach a verdict. Prosecutors decided not to retry Carlile and asked a judge to dismiss the charge, saying they did not believe they would be able to find a jury that could reach a verdict.
