A former Riverside County Sheriff's deputy was granted probation on Tuesday, more than a decade after he shot and killed the father of his girlfriend's children in Coachella.

Oscar Rodriguez, 43, was recently convicted in June of the shooting that left Luis Morin dead in 2014. Morin was the ex-boyfriend of Rodriguez's then-girlfriend, Diana Perez, according to a news release from the Riverside County District Attorney's Office. The jury also found true an allegation that he personally used a firearm in the commission of the crime.

Prosecutors say that Rodriguez was on patrol on Jan. 27, 2014, when he learned Morin's whereabouts from Perez.

"Without alerting his law enforcement team, Rodriguez went to the 48-800 block of Camino Real in Coachella, where Morin was approaching the front d

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