Officers kill man with no active warrants at wrong house

Officers kill man with no active warrants at wrong house

“No active warrants” is a strange way to refer to an innocent man. “Linares said her husband went to the door to see what was happening outside. That's when she heard gunshots and by the time she reached her husband, he was already dead. "Bullet holes suggest they shot through the door," Wells said. Officers said Lopez came to the door pointing a gun at them. Those officers claim to have asked Lopez multiple times to drop the gun before they started shooting. But, neighbors said they didn't hear anything like that. "I didn't hear yelling," neighbor Nicholas Tramel said. Tramel's room is right next to the Lopez home. He said he never heard police tell Lopez to put his rifle down. Wells implied that officers had reasons not to tell the truth in their account of what happened. Namely, because they could face consequences for shooting Lopez. He also said that Claudia, who was the only one on the property who could not be held responsible for shooting Lopez, did not hear any commands or instructions being given. In addition, Wells said Lopez never pointed a gun at the officers. "There was a gun on the premises, but the man did not have the gun with him when police shot him," he said.”