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September 29, 2017

Jury Awards $6.5 Million to Family of Mentally-Ill Man Killed by Sacramento Sheriff's Deputy

A federal jury took less than than two hours Wednesday to award $6.5 million to the family of Johnathan Rose, a schizophrenic man shot and killed in his home by a Sacramento County sheriff’s deputy who’d been called by Rose’s parents to help their agitated son.

Rose’s father, Ted Rose – who had said he could feel the bullets enter his son’s body as he tried to restrain him – filed the wrongful death lawsuit against Deputy David McEntire and Sacramento County but died last week on the eve of his scheduled testimony in the case.

Posted by at 06:29 AM in Civil Rights Lawsuits, law enforcement lawsuits, Sacramento Jury Trials |

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