Jonathan Granado left Lake Worth PD last month. In November 2020, he struck a man with his police SUV during a chase. Granado was punished but stayed on the job. Then in September 2021, Granado shot and killed an armed 18-year-old during a chase. Police did not want to identify the shooter as Granado, but the information was leaked.
The Lake Worth officer facing a federal excessive force lawsuit for running over a suspect with an SUV was also involved in a deadly police-involved shooting.
During a press conference Tuesday, Lake Worth police revealed Granado is the officer who shot and killed 18-year-old Estevan Ramirez during a chase last September.Police say they didn’t want to make that connection public, even as they held a press conference about Granado on Monday. However, the connection was made anyway when his involvement with the shooting was leaked.
Granado didn’t get charged with a crime for the 2020 SUV strike. The department punished him for violating policies, but he was allowed to keep his job.A Fort Worth man is suing a former Lake Worth police officer in federal court, calling an incident where he was running away from cops on foot and struck by a police SUV excessive force. We want to warn you the video may be hard to watch.
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