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By Kathy Stewart /WTOP
WASHINGTON — It has been more
than a year since a Fairfax County police officer shot and killed Springfield,
Virginia, resident John Geer, and the man’s family is still in a legal battle
over his death.
Geer was killed in his doorway
in August 2013 by county police officer Adam Torres during a standoff. Geer had
guns in his home according to a report released last year and some witnesses
claim that he was unarmed when he was shot.
Geer’s family is suing the
police department for wrongful death.
Some say they believe the police
department has been stonewalling the public and prosecutors in the case, but
the lawyers for Geer’s family will ask for all internal police affairs files on
Torres at a hearing Friday afternoon in Fairfax County Circuit Court, The
Washington Post reports.
The Fairfax County police
department had remained silent on the August 2013 shooting until Jan. 30, 2015,
when a court order forced the release 11,000 pages of documents in the
case.
In addition to the internal
affairs files, Geer’s family will also request the files on an incident at the
Fairfax County courthouse where Torres was fuming and cursing out an assistant
county prosecutor, The Post reports.
There are three other internal
affairs complaints or cases against Torres and the family lawyers want
information to them as well.
Two of the complaints involved
car accidents that Torres had in his police cruiser, but neither of the
accidents was the officer’s fault and the third complaint involved a suspect’s
lost property, The Washington Post reports.
Also, the family lawyers want
documents on the internal affairs investigation into the shooting. That
investigation began on September 2014.
