The mother of the man accused of aggravated robbery and theft in the incident where a 24-year-old unarmed Brownsville man was shot and killed by police says it was all over a case of stolen beer.
Irma Juarez, mother of Jaime Gomez, being held in county jail on a $40,000 bond, said her son had told her that neither he nor Jose Roman Rodriguez, 24, the shooting victim, had any weapons and that as he ran from the SUV, he turned and saw a police shoot the driver.
"“He took off. He just started running,” Juarez told a reporter for CHANNEL 5 NEWS. “He ran across the street. When he was running, he heard gunshots. He turned around, and he saw they were shooting.”(In the photo at right, Juarez is standing to the left of Maria del Carmen Treviño, the victim's mother.)
Rodriguez's mother said the family hasn't heard any information from the Texas Rangers about the investigation. She still hasn't seen her son’s autopsy report.
The case has stirred indignation among family members and their supporters who say the length of time it is taking police, the Texas Department of Public Safety's Texas Rangers investigating the incident, and the Cameron County District Attorney to give them the true account of what happened has led them to suspect there is a cover-up in the offing.
The DA has said that the evidence will be presented to a county grand jury sometime in the next few weeks.
"Why is it taking so long for them to tell me who the officer was and why he had to shoot my son when he was not armed," said Treviño.
Even though the Texas Rangers have not provided the family with an autopsy, Treviño said that when her son's body was finally released to her three days after he was killed, he had tow bullet entry wounds to the left side of his body.
"One of them was on his left arm and the other was on the left side of his chest as if he had raised his arms when he was shot," she said.
Police haven't even said how many shots were fired.
Investigators from the Texas Department of Public Safety said Rodriguez died at the hospital as a result of the shooting.
News reports indicate that the efforts to keep the public away from the facts in the case started at the very onset. As part of the investigation after the shooting, police blocked off traffic from entering the area — near the Subway restaurant and the Brownsville Public Utilities Board sewer plant — for the better part of that Friday morning.
All DA Luis Saenz and BPD's Lt. Gerard Serrato and Commander Juan Hernandez said was that they could confirm that an on-duty Brownsville police officer had shot and killed someone earlier in the day.
Authorities said the officer involved in the shooting was unharmed.
However, their first statements that the officer had “shot and killed an aggravated robbery suspect between 1 and 2 a.m” were not confirmed at the press conference.
The changing stories and the fact that police have not said that Rodriguez was unarmed when he was shot have raised questions from his relatives.
However, their first statements that the officer had “shot and killed an aggravated robbery suspect between 1 and 2 a.m” were not confirmed at the press conference.
The changing stories and the fact that police have not said that Rodriguez was unarmed when he was shot have raised questions from his relatives.
11 comments:
Cops gone wild. Compare' Em to the TV series, "ZOO" .
Cops gone wild. Compare them to the TV Series "ZOO".
Pendejo. GET A JOB AND PAY FOR THE BEER, IDIOT! He was shot for stealing, and that's okay in our society - Mexican, or not.
Should of paid for the beer like we do. Or waited for the lone star and sold them to get beer like everyone else in southmost.
Sorry to the family but the truth always hurts.
Little by little we are starting to have some information trickle down but they are still hiding the whole story. BPD is stomewalling the media because they screwed up and there is an active attempt to conceal the several failures to follow protocol.
The narco cops of BPD are running scared protecting a rookie cop who has ties to another one.
It is stupid to shoot somebody over beer but it is equally as stupid to get shot over beer. Asi marcha la Vidal aqui en Nacoland.
Beer, beer, beer, and not a drop to Drink !
Stop if any of you would be going through this you be thinking otherwise I personally would want justice but in reality I would rally people who would consider my sitiation then I would call for a town meeting bring the pork officer in barbacue his ass and feed him to the homeless down there at the good neighbor shelter and for those who cant eat pork say the muslims I would donate the rest to the valleys local police associations to feed thier own hunger matters you know yes it would be for a good cause and we would do that and other people justice yea bone appa pig
I demand Justice for the Naco that stole my case of Bud from the D.A.'s office !
When are the tecolotes (cops) going to release the report on the suspect they killed while unarmed !! The moral of the story is : don't steal beer, gum,, cigarettes , or a can of Bush Beans or you'll get your Ass shot by the friendly cops.
He was my dad...I was about 4 or 5 years old when I heard he had been shot.I am now 12 years old and still without a father.I hope that I get over it but either way the cop who shot my father even when he was un armed,shouldn't give him the right mind to do such a thing.
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