The San Antonio police officer who killed a 13-year-old boy earlier this month should have been kicked off the police force months ago, said the sister of a man who was fatally shot by the same officer last year.
Debra Montez Felder, whose brother John Pena Montez, 57, was killed by officer Stephen Ramos in March 2021, said she has remained in touch with the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office over the past year, pushing them for more information about the internal investigation into her brother's death, to no avail.
In a statement, the Bexar County district attorney’s office said it “has not completed the review of this case so that it can be presented to a Grand Jury, which will determine whether there is sufficient probable cause to send the case to a trial court.” He said the videos show Andre “bump” into a car while traveling at a low speed and called the shooting an unjustified use of force because the officers were not in imminent threat of death.
Police have said Ramos shot and killed Montez after Montez threatened his estranged wife with a knife. Officers told him repeatedly to drop the knife but he did not comply, police said. After another officer on the scene unsuccessfully attempted to deploy a Taser on him, Montez swung a knife at him, prompting Ramos to fire his gun, police said.But Felder said that story did not match the one-and-a-half minute police footage of the incident the department allowed her and her husband to watch.
“He threatened to kill himself almost a year before and went through another mental health crisis, and police at that time took him to a state hospital and then ultimately went to the VA hospital and was receiving treatment counseling there so his wife called them [police] because he was in a kind of a meltdown for a week or two or even before he was shot.
In its statement, the district attorney’s office said it has been in contact with Montez’s “next of kin and family members on numerous occasions since April of 2021 to review video evidence and to discuss the incident. They have been notified every time there has been an update in this case.”
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