Gainfully employed white man with a family, so do not expect to hear anything more about this either.
Granbury wife wants answers after husband shot by Arizona police
January 22, 2016
http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/local...lice/79159608/
Laney Sweet is still talking about her husband in the present tense.
“He’s really funny, he’s really laid back,” she says. “He’s always the person to try and diffuse a situation, keep the peace.”
She says it’s nearly impossible to wrap her head around the notion that 26-year-old Daniel Shaver of Granbury, the father of her girls, is gone.
He was shot and killed by a police officer Monday night at a La Quinta Inn in Mesa, Arizona, where he was staying for work.
“That’s what I keep saying,” Sweet says. “This is not my life, this is not my life. I’m 24. My husband’s gone. I’ve got two kids.”
Mesa police say Monday night, they were called to the hotel after people in the pool reported seeing a man on the fifth floor, pointing a rifle out of the window.
“They’re just really long guns,” Sweet says, telling us Shaver had pellet rifles with him for his pest control job.
Police say when they went to Shaver’s hotel room to investigate, he and another person came out, but then Shaver kept concealing his hands behind him, despite orders not to. Police say one of the officers felt threatened and shot Shaver. The officer had been with the department for two-and-a-half years, and is currently reassigned during the investigation.
Police say Shaver turned out to be unarmed.
The pellet guns were found in the room.
“I just feel like there's no reason possibly that could be justified for shooting him multiple times, and him dying in a hallway unarmed,” Sweet says.
There is video of the incident, police say, but it won’t be released yet.
Sweet wants to know what it shows, why they didn’t use a Taser on him first, and what witnesses saw.
“I want answers to all of that,” she says. And those answers right now are a thousand miles away.
Sweet has created a memorial page on Facebook and a GoFundMe page to help pay for funeral expenses -- and for an attorney to investigate the circumstances surrounding her husband's death.
The Mesa Police Department said Friday that its sympathy goes out to Shaver's family.
"These types of situations are difficult for police officers. The officer involved in this incident has been with the Mesa Police Department for two and a half years and is currently administratively reassigned per department protocol," the department said. "The investigation is currently on going and all evidence and statements are being completed to be presented to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office (MCAO) for an independent review. A key piece of evidence of this case is the on-body camera video which captured the incident. The video will not be immediately released publicly until the investigation is completed and reviewed by MCAO."
(Doesn't sound like sympathy to me. Sounds like, "$#@! Mundane should have complied, then we would not have to put our brave officer through the torture of a mock investigation." - AF)
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