The family of a man who was fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy outside a Colorado middle school at pickup time alleges in a wrongful death lawsuit that deputies unnecessarily escalated a situation that should have been handled nonviolently
THOMAS PEIPERT and COLLEEN SLEVINDENVER — — The family of a man who was fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy outside a Colorado middle school while students were being picked up alleges in a wrongful death lawsuit that deputies unnecessarily escalated a situation that should have been handled nonviolently.
Attorneys said that after his walk, he mistook a similar-looking SUV for his mother’s vehicle, opened the door and got inside. Ward apologized to the driver and then returned to his mother’s vehicle, according to the lawsuit. “It is really just an outrageous example of how policing these days is aggressive and militarized,” attorney Darold Killmer said.
The lawsuit claims the deputies could have ordered Ward to spit the pill out and step out of the vehicle, but they “consistently escalated the situation” and wrongly believed more force was warranted. McWhorter said that while he and Ward were wrestling on the ground, Ward head-butted him right before he shot him.
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