4 Houston police officers fired after shooting man on the ground 21 times during alleged mental health crisis
The police chief said the barrage was ruled "objectively unreasonable."
By
Meredith Deliso
September 10, 2020, 9:03 PM
Four Houston police officers were fired Thursday after a months-long investigation of a fatal shooting found that they were "objectively unreasonable" in discharging 21 rounds at a man in distress.
On April 21 at around 9 p.m., multiple officers responded to several 911 calls about a man who was running through highway traffic.
Officers approached Nicolas Chavez, 27, in a parking lot, where he was running while holding a metal object, police said. During a roughly 15-minute interaction, officers shot Chavez with stun guns and bean bags while attempting to "stop him from harming himself," Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo said in a video compilation of the body-camera footage that was also released Thursday.
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