California officials fatally shot an unarmed man after a wife called the police station to help her husband who was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. The wife is now suing the city
A California widow whose husband was suffering from awhen she called a nonemergency number for help last year sued Culver City police Tuesday, alleging they shot her unarmed husband in the back as he was running from officers.
Medina was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and hadn't taken his medication in a couple of weeks when he showed up at his home and pounded on the windows, his wife said at a news conference. "There was no report of domestic violence," DeSimone said."There was no report that he was threatening her with a handgun. She never saw a gun."
The conflicting statements from both police and Medina’s wife, along with grainy video of the shooting, make it too difficult to determine if the shooting was justified, said Ed Obayashi, a deputy sheriff and adviser to the Plumas County sheriff who investigates use of force incidents for policeRecordings of the call to police and what dispatchers relayed to officers will be crucial in determining the threat they may have perceived, he said.
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