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发帖数: 11530 | 1 Neighbors say deaf man killed by Okla. police couldn't speak
Magdiel Sanchez was shot and killed by Oklahoma City police KWTV
Last Updated Sep 21, 2017 2:36 PM EDT
OKLAHOMA CITY - A man who saw Oklahoma City police officers open fire on his
deaf neighbor says the neighbor was developmentally disabled and also didn'
t speak.
Julio Rayos tells The Oklahoman that 35-year-old Magdiel Sanchez mainly
communicated through hand movements. He says he believes Sanchez became
frustrated trying to tell the officers what was going on.
Sanchez was carrying what officers described as a pipe and wasn't obeying
the officers' commands before one shot him with a gun and the other with a
Taser on Tuesday night, police Capt. Bo Mathews said at a news conference.
He said witnesses were yelling "he can't hear you" before the officers fired
, but they didn't hear them.
Rayos told the newspaper, however, that he thinks the officers heard him.
"I believe they did hear me because one of them turned around and looked at
me," he said.
Sanchez, who had no apparent criminal history, died at the scene. The
officer who fired the gun, Sgt. Chris Barnes, has been placed on
administrative leave pending an investigation.
"I thought they could haven taken care of it a different way," said Rayos. "
Me personally I could have probably taken care of it myself."
Mathews said the officers were investigating a reported hit-and-run at
around 8:15 p.m. Tuesday. He said a witness told Lt. Matthew Lindsey the
address where the vehicle responsible for the hit-and-run had gone, and that
Sanchez was on the porch holding what police initially described as a stick
but later called a metal pipe when Lindsey arrived. Sanchez's father, who
was allegedly driving the hit-and-run vehicle, said Sanchez wasn't in the
vehicle when he struck something and drove off. It wasn't a person that was
struck.
CBS affiliate KWTV reports that witnesses say the pipe Sanchez was holding
was not a weapon but a stick he walked with and that he was using hand
motions to communicate with the officers.
"In those situations, very volatile situations, you have a weapon out, you
can get what they call tunnel vision, or you can really lock in to just the
person that has the weapon that'd be the threat against you," Mathews said.
"I don't know exactly what the officers were thinking at that point."
Jolie Guebara, who lives two houses from the shooting scene, told The
Associated Press that she heard five or six gunshots before she looked
outside and saw the police.
"He always had a stick that he would walk around with, because there's a lot
of stray dogs," Guebara said.
Guebara said Sanchez, whose name she didn't know, wrote notes to communicate
with her and her husband when he would occasionally stop and visit if they
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