The man, identified Sunday as Nicholas Robertson, 28, of Lynwood, died Saturday following the deputy-involved shooting in the area of Long Beach Boulevard and Magnolia Avenue.
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Experts familiar with use-of-force cases said deputies will need to explain why they opened fire and continued to shoot as Robertson was on the ground.
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Other family members believe that the shooting was excessive and that Robertson may have never heard the command to drop the gun. He added that the handgun wasn’t loaded when deputies approached Robertson, and there is no evidence that he fired at them, but the suspect was holding rounds at the time he was shot.
“He sounded angry about something”, Roberto said. “He’s very intent. What was in his head I guess we’ll never know”. The man was pronounced dead on the scene. A family reported he fired the gun in front of their house.
Katz stressed that the investigation is ongoing.
Robertson may have been in a dispute at home with his spouse before he went out on the street, but authorities have yet to verify that report, Katz said.
“The movement indicated that he was motioning in the direction of the sheriff’s deputies”, he said.
The incident comes amid increasing public scrutiny over police-involved shootings both in the Los Angeles area and nationwide.
One officer had been working in the field for about a year and the other, for about 18 months.
Police say a California man was brandishing a gun at cops and civilians before officers mortally shot him-but relatives are asking why he was sprayed with bullets as he tried to crawl away. “He had take them to and from school”. Help them with homework. “He didn’t do nothing else”.
KTLA reported stated the person killed by police was 28-yr-previous Nicholas Robertson, citing kinfolk. “My kids will see justice”.
Robertson’s wife told the Los Angeles Times that her mother-in-law had called her shortly before the shooting to say Nicholas Robertson was under the influence of alcohol. She made no mention of an argument with Robertson, but did note that when he drank, he behaved, “like a child that needs love”. “This shouldn’t have happened to him”. “He drinks. That’s the only thing he’s ever been in jail for”, she said. “My twins say, ‘Not another funeral, ‘” Nekesha Robertson said. But an eyewitness video broadcast on local television appears to show the suspect turning his back on deputies and walking away when he was shot. But LACSD Capt. Steven Katz said Robertson repeatedly refused to put the gun down.
Seth Stoughton, a criminal law professor at the University of SC and a former Tampa, Fla., police officer, said there are circumstances under which an officer can shoot at a suspect walking away from them.
If an officer or officers encounter a more determined suspect, they may be required to keep shooting until the damage of bullets upon the suspect’s body forces him to stop being a threat, either through blood loss or a central nervous system hit.
“It does not strike me as egregious like [the] Walter Scott video here in SC…” Authorities said they received five more similar calls from witnesses alarmed by what they saw. More facts, he cautioned, are needed to determine what occurred outside the video.
“The biggest issue here is the suspect has a gun”.
If the officer misses the suspect entirely and the suspect decides to then become compliant with the officer’s commands, that one shot missed shot was enough. “They must show they reasonably used deadly force”.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is investigating the fatal shooting of an armed man by deputies summoned to the scene after 911 calls reporting he was pointing the weapon at people and firing shots into the air.
Katz said detectives have been canvassing the area for digital video from cellphones and businesses in the area.
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After the initial volleys of gunfire, the deputies continued to shoot as Robertson fell to the ground. No deputies were injured.In accordance with protocol, a multi-agency investigation was underway.
