Man shot dead by Adams County sheriff deputy at Lakeside Inn on Federal BoulevardĪn internal investigation into whether McWhorter and Gonzales should be disciplined is ongoing, Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Gayle Perez said. McWhorter told a fellow sheriff’s deputy that Ward “headbutted my nose and then tried grabbing at my stuff,” body camera footage shows. Ward was dead by the time fire department paramedics arrived five minutes later. The deputies didn’t answer her except to tell her to stay in the car. Ward’s mother, still sitting in the front passenger seat of the car, can be heard on body camera screaming, “Is my son shot?” Ward lay on the ground after he was shot, but neither deputy rendered aid or checked his vital signs. McWhorter’s body camera fell off during the ensuing struggle, but footage from Gonzales’s camera shows the two deputies struggling with Ward for 20 seconds before McWhorter shot Ward. The pill was likely anxiety medication Ward had been prescribed, Killmer said. “It was a pill, let me go!” Ward said as he was pushed to the ground, according to the video. Ward then put something in his mouth, causing McWhorter to grab him by the jacket and push him to the ground, the video shows. As Ward searched for his ID, he said he might have a pocket knife and showed McWhorter two lighters. McWhorter then asked for Ward’s identification and whether he had any weapons. Ward explained to McWhorter that he accidentally got into the wrong car because he mistook the vehicle for his mother’s. “We’re different, we’re the sheriff’s office,” McWhorter said. McWhorter asked Ward whether he’d had that experience with the police department or the sheriff’s office. Ward told McWhorter that cops make him nervous because he had been hit by officers before. Ward explained to McWhorter that they were waiting to pick up his little brother from school. People on scene directed McWhorter to Stamp’s car, where Ward, Stamp and Stamp’s boyfriend sat inside, body camera footage shows. One person reported the man may be “on something” and acted “aggressive” with one car, according to the letter. McWhorter approached Ward in Stamp’s car after a call about a suspicious man trying to open car doors, according to the district attorney’s letter. (Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post)
Richard Ward was shot and killed by a Pueblo County sheriff’s deputy in 2022. Our family has been ripped apart.” Kristy Ward speaks as she stands between partners Darold Killmer and Mari Newman of Killmer, Lane & Newman, LLP during a press conference in downtown Denver on Feb. “I have no words to explain this to Richard’s little brother. “My heart is broken,” Ward’s mother, Kristy Ward Stamp, said in a statement. Ward had not committed a crime and was answering the deputies’ questions when McWhorter took him to the ground, the lawsuit states.
McWhorter “recklessly and deliberately initiated a wholly unnecessary and purposeless physical use of force against and struggle with Mr. District Court against Pueblo County and five sheriff’s officials. “This was nothing short of state-sanctioned murder of a citizen who should not have been even arrested, let alone killed in broad daylight.”īut the encounter never should have escalated to the point of a physical struggle or deadly force, according to the wrongful-death lawsuit filed in U.S. “Richard Ward’s death is a profound injustice - an unarmed, cooperative citizen shot and killed in front of his mother by a Pueblo County sheriff’s deputy,” said Darold Killmer, the Ward family’s attorney. The entire incident, from first contact to shots fired, lasted two minutes. Ward died on the ground outside the school as kids wearing backpacks walked past. McWhorter didn’t give Ward orders before pulling him from the car and never gave a warning that he was going to use deadly force, the video shows. Neither McWhorter nor another deputy on scene, Cassandra Gonzales, provided medical care to Ward as he lay bleeding on the ground, the footage shows. Ward and McWhorter briefly struggled on the ground before McWhorter shot Ward three times in the chest at point-blank range, the video shows. 22, 2022, after Ward put something in his mouth while McWhorter spoke to him, according to body camera footage released by attorneys representing Ward’s family. The deputy, Charles McWhorter, yanked 32-year-old Richard Ward from his mother’s car outside Liberty Point International Middle School in Pueblo West on Feb. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close MenuĪ Pueblo County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed an unarmed man outside of a middle school last year after contacting the man because he accidentally got into the wrong car in the school’s pick-up line, a federal civil rights lawsuit filed Tuesday alleges.
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