Preliminary findings of an independent autopsy show an 18-year-old man was shot five times in the back, according to attorney’s for the family of Andres Guardado.
Guardado was shot and killed June 18 by a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy near an auto body shop on Redondo Beach Boulevard.
Deputies said Guardado was seen talking to someone in a car that was blocking a driveway, and that he had a gun when he began to run. A deputy fired a half-dozen rounds at Guardado, who died at the scene, according to authorities.
The official coroner’s report has not been released. Sheriff Alex Villanueva said that he would soon make public the investigative findings, but said progress was slowed by people who claimed on social media that they witnesses the killing.
“And everyone who says that means that’s another potential witness that we have to interview,” he told the Compton City Council late last month.
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Source: NBC Los Angeles
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