ASAN (KXAN) – The jury has cleared a former officer in the Austin Police Administration in a lawsuit against civil death, according to sources familiar with the court’s procedures.
The jury cleared Gabriel Guterres in the case of the 2021 police fire for Alex Gonzales. The officers participating in the shooting did not face criminal charges. The administration also cleared them of committing any violations as a result of the internal investigation of their actions.
KXAN has contacted the city’s public prosecutor’s office, as well as the prosecutor’s lawyer, and will update this story when we receive responses.
The ministry said the accident began when Gonzalez was claimed that Gottires cut off, who was out of service at the time, and then referred to a gun. APD Guterres called for backup.
APD said her investigation revealed that when Guterres touched with Gonzalez, Guterres was acting as a private citizen who defended himself in the face of a fatal threat.
Once officers in the service arrived at the scene, APD said that officer Luis Cerato shot Gonzalez while he was outside his car, reaches the back seat and ignored orders. The police found a gun in a Gonzalez, but his family claims that he was reaching his child, not a weapon.
The Gonzalez family believes that the criminal justice system and the police department did not bear the properly Guterres, so they sought justice through the lawsuit, according to court documents in addition to the previous statements that the family publicly made.
“I am trying to do what I can, the best I can to my son,” Gonzalez’s mother said at an event in the city hall soon from the officers’ announcement that the officers would not face charges or disciplinary action.
In May, the city settled a lawsuit with Gonzalez’s girlfriend for $ 550,000. She was with Gonzalez in the car during the accident and was shot. Her lawyer said that he hoped to be “the last thing and that this settlement encourages the city to think and change the way APD is achieved in the shooting.”