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    A death and lawsuit bring more scrutiny to timing in LAPD shootings

    by Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times Jun 09, 2022 4 minutes
    Alan Castellanos, who was fatally shot by the LAPD on April 6 while holding a knife, is mourned, from left, by his wife Nailea Vera Castellanos; their son, whom the family requested not be identified by name; niece Dayanara Gonzalez, holding the boy; sister Cristian Mendoza; mother Maria Sanchez; and sister Sagui Lopez.

    LOS ANGELES — When Alan Castellanos began moving toward a team of Los Angeles police officers with a knife in his hand one afternoon in April, they seemed ready to hold him off without using deadly force.

    Two officers had Tasers trained on Castellanos, another had a beanbag shotgun aimed at him and a fourth was armed with a 40-millimeter hard-foam projectile launcher.

    Yet within seconds, Castellanos was on the ground with a fatal gunshot wound to the abdomen after a fifth officer shot him with his handgun just as another deployed a Taser.

    For Castellanos’ family, the killing was incomprehensible — and inexcusable.

    “They’re overreacting. They’re not planning,” Castellanos’ sister, Cristian Mendoza, said of the officers involved.

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