Virginia Beach: The authorities on the beach Virginia said a black man who was fatally shot by the police had appointed a gun at the officer who shot him.
The city claim emerged in court courts in response to the wrong death lawsuit of $ 50 million submitted by the male family earlier this year, pilots reported Monday.
Donovon Lynch was shot by a Virginia coastal police officer at the end of March along the edge of the sea city during a chaotic night where 10 people were shot for some separate time.
The police initially said that an uniform officer “met armed residents’ and fatal shot.
Submission of city law on July 21 accused the officer” afraid of his life and life of other officers and citizens around him.
“The officer was identified in submission as Solomon D Simmons III, which was also black.
The city accused that Simmons heard,” What sounded for him like a drop of a gun that placed a bullet in the room.
“Simmons also claimed that Lynch got up from a few bushes and pointed at the gun at him before he was fatal shooting him.
The police said the body’s camera was not activated for unknown reasons.
City claims contrary to what a witness told Virginian pilot earlier this year.
Darrion Marsh, a friend of Lynch who said he witnessed the shooting, told the newspaper that the officers shot Lynch without verbal warning.
The Lynch family has said that he has permission hidden and has a gun at him the shooting night.
Marsh said Lynch never came out of his cargo shorts.
Lynch is a cousin of Virginia Beach beach and Grammy Winner Musician Pharrell Williams.