In related news, the parents of 13-year-old Andy Lopez will sue Gelhaus and Sonoma County in the death of their son. The federal civil rights lawsuit will be filed on Monday at the Federal District Court in San Francisco.
The lawsuit will allege that the shooting of Andy was unconstitutional in that it violated the Fourth Amendment’s limits on police authority.
Lopez had an AK-47 AND A Replica handgun in his waistband.
a neighbor told him the deputies were behind him, driving up to him and he needed to put the gun down..this before the sound of the siren and then the officer yelling twice to put the gun down. Tragic he didnt comply.
he recently transferred to program designed for behavior management
According to his father, he was expelled from Lawrence Cook Middle School in Santa Rosa. On Tuesday, he had been sent home early from his new alternative school, for what his parents described as lingering too long at a local store during a break.
Thanks for the info.
The inside story I cannot verify is that Lopez tried to rob a woman using the toy.
You missed this part:
Investigators have said 10 seconds elapsed between the time Gelhaus and a trainee reported a 'suspicious person' and then reported shots fired to dispatchers. The trainee did not open fire.
10 seconds for all of that and that is fact. So he only yelled once and never identified himself as a police officer.
Since when is turning to see who is yelling at you a capitol crime requiring 8 shots???