Anyone watch this news this week they talk about this case...There was a topice on this case a while back some where here when it happened...
Some update on this case.
Mpls Police Accused of Evidence Cover-Up in 2006 Shooting
Created On: Monday, 30 Mar 2009, 8:27 PM CDT
Tom Lyden
MINNEAPOLIS - The family of a 19-year-old man who died in an officer-involved shooting in 2006 is raising questions about evidence in the case. They accuse police of covering up evidence, especially in what they claim to be a mystery gun.
The family of Fong Lee has maintained from the start that he never had a gun during the incident.
They could not explain the Russian-made 380 a few feet from his dead body though.
In court documents filed Monday, attorneys for Lee's family trace the stolen gun to its original owner. They now claim cops dropped the gun there to cover up the shooting of an unarmed teenager.
The incident
On July 22, 2006, Lee died at the hands of Minneapolis police.
Lee was running from police in north Minneapolis. City View Elementary surveillance camera caught some of the chase.
In the video, Lee is running away from police without a gun. A few seconds later, Lee is dead. Police say, Lee pointed a gun at the officer, and the cop had no choice but to shoot. Lee was shot multiple times.
The Evidence
Attorneys for Lee's family claim the gun he was allegedly carrying, wasn't Lee's gun at all. In a court affidavit filed Monday, Dang Her says the gun is his.
The serial numbers match his numbers. The gun was stolen from his home February 2004, two and half years before the fatal shooting.
The gun was supposed to be in the Minneapolis Police Department evidence vault. It should not have been on the crime scene.
Sources within the Minneapolis Police Department tell FOX 9, there was an innocent mix-up. They say there are two guns. The gun in the evidence room wasn't the gun taken from the robbery in 2004. The gun from the robbery was recovered next to Lee's body.
Police tried to clarify the discrepancy in a police report a month after Lee's shooting, but to attorneys representing Lee's family, it all looks like an attempt at a cover up.
>>>Link to go watch the clips:
http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/news/Mp...g_march_30_2009
>>>Link to go watch the press conference:
http://mplsmirror.com/joomla/index.php?opt...22&Itemid=1
They going to court on May 11, 2009 (That what I hear from my parents when they went to the meeting of this case.)
Some update on this case.
Mpls Police Accused of Evidence Cover-Up in 2006 Shooting
Created On: Monday, 30 Mar 2009, 8:27 PM CDT
Tom Lyden
MINNEAPOLIS - The family of a 19-year-old man who died in an officer-involved shooting in 2006 is raising questions about evidence in the case. They accuse police of covering up evidence, especially in what they claim to be a mystery gun.
The family of Fong Lee has maintained from the start that he never had a gun during the incident.
They could not explain the Russian-made 380 a few feet from his dead body though.
In court documents filed Monday, attorneys for Lee's family trace the stolen gun to its original owner. They now claim cops dropped the gun there to cover up the shooting of an unarmed teenager.
The incident
On July 22, 2006, Lee died at the hands of Minneapolis police.
Lee was running from police in north Minneapolis. City View Elementary surveillance camera caught some of the chase.
In the video, Lee is running away from police without a gun. A few seconds later, Lee is dead. Police say, Lee pointed a gun at the officer, and the cop had no choice but to shoot. Lee was shot multiple times.
The Evidence
Attorneys for Lee's family claim the gun he was allegedly carrying, wasn't Lee's gun at all. In a court affidavit filed Monday, Dang Her says the gun is his.
The serial numbers match his numbers. The gun was stolen from his home February 2004, two and half years before the fatal shooting.
The gun was supposed to be in the Minneapolis Police Department evidence vault. It should not have been on the crime scene.
Sources within the Minneapolis Police Department tell FOX 9, there was an innocent mix-up. They say there are two guns. The gun in the evidence room wasn't the gun taken from the robbery in 2004. The gun from the robbery was recovered next to Lee's body.
Police tried to clarify the discrepancy in a police report a month after Lee's shooting, but to attorneys representing Lee's family, it all looks like an attempt at a cover up.
>>>Link to go watch the clips:
http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/news/Mp...g_march_30_2009
>>>Link to go watch the press conference:
http://mplsmirror.com/joomla/index.php?opt...22&Itemid=1
They going to court on May 11, 2009 (That what I hear from my parents when they went to the meeting of this case.)
