The San Diego County District Attorney’s Office announced Friday that it completed its review of seven recent police shootings — two of them fatal — and that the actions of the officers and deputies involved were legally justified.
Officers later located the car and pulled it over, but Veleta got out, a gun in his hand, and fled, the district attorney’s report said. Officers gave chase until Veleta fell to his knees in the back of a restaurant. Officers were asking Veleta to put down the gun when, with his back towards officers, he raised the weapon behind him toward police.
Officers responded, and Bowers’ father led one of them — Officer Matthew Steinbach — to where Bowers was sitting in a darkened room, the district attorney’s report said. When Steinbach asked Bowers how he was doing, he stood and pulled a knife from the front pocket of his sweatshirt. Bowers’ father told investigators that he could have gotten the knife away from his son and that the officer didn’t need to open fire. In the report, he said that’s why he didn’t want to call 911., 36, was wanted for the grisly death of his mother when he was shot and wounded in a La Mesa home on May 2, 2019.Police were sent to the La Mesa house after a man reported a trespasser refusing to leave.
His mother, who lives in Oklahoma, called the Sheriff’s Department and asked for a welfare check at theDeputies Lisa Crill, Casey Dow and Matthew Poulin entered the home with the grandmother’s permission. When Crill asked if she could check Felix for weapons, he took a step back and pulled a large firearm from his jacket.
Never will have police reform in our current political system. Wake up and stop voting for shite DAs
What a shocker. NOT
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