4. Unarmed Teen Gunned Down in California
“Mommy, Mommy, please come, please come.”
These words haunt Lucia Morejon, the mother of a 19-year-old brutally gunned down by a Long Beach police officer who claims that he believed the teenager possessed a firearm.
After the shooting Lucia saw her son, the youngest of five, being loaded into an ambulance, but, after identifying herself to the authorities, was told that she could not escort her son to the hospital.
Hector Morejon, the victim, died.
According to police, “The officer observed [Morejon] turn towards him, while bending his knees, and extending his arm out as if pointing an object which the officer perceived was a gun. At this point, an officer involved shooting occurred.”
No weapon was recovered at the scene.
The police are refusing to say how many times the teenager was shot. The family asked for an independent investigation by the Department of Justice.
