Officer Fatally Shoots Shoplifting Suspect
April 29, 2008
Family Tells Different Story Of Man Shot By Office
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — The family of a shoplifting suspect who was shot and killed by a Miami-Dade police officer said he was never armed and didn’t fight with the officer as police claim.
Police are investigating what led the officer to fatally shoot the man in a southwest Miami-Dade County neighborhood Sunday night. It happened at about 7 p.m. in a yard at 22315 SW 117th Court.
According to police, an officer was investigating a theft from an area mall. Police said a mall security officer directed him to the neighborhood near Southwest 224th Street and 117th Court, where the suspect ran.
When the officer followed and attempted to apprehend the suspect, a struggle ensued and the officer shot the suspect, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
But family of the dead man, whom they identify as Joseph Lumpkin, tells a different story of what occurred.
“He came over this gate and he was trying to get over that gate and the police came and told him to get down, but he was stuck on the gate,” the man’s aunt, Stephanie Pope, said. “So he was telling him, ‘I’m stuck on the gate.’ And they shot him.”
His family said he was unarmed and never fought with the officer.
“They could’ve done anything but shoot to kill,” said another family member. “That’s what they did. Shoot to kill. That’s what they did. Shoot to kill, and that was just dead wrong.”
WPLG | Monday, April 28, 2008
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