Yousel Rivera News Today

Yousel Rivera, 29, was stopped for driving with an expired tag when he shot Officer David Wagoner three times in the torso.

Yousel Rivera has been sentenced to life in prison for trying to shoot a Cape Coral Police Officer during a 2011 traffic stop.

Yousel Rivera, 29, was stopped for driving with an expired tag when he shot Officer David Wagoner three times in the torso.

The verdict is in on the third day of the retrial of a man convicted of shooting a Cape Coral police officer.

Rivera is getting a new trial because, in the previous trial, a circuit judge failed to give a jury instruction about whether Rivera knew the victim was a police officer.

Rivera is getting a new trial because, in the previous one, a judge failed to tell the jury whether Rivera knew the victim was an officer.