Friends and family of the man killed, Jonathan Price, said he was trying to intervene in a domestic violence situation before he was killed at the Kwik Check gas station at 103 Santa Fe Street.
The Texas Rangers have released few details on the shooting or the officer involved, other than to say the officer was placed on administrative leave.
Marcella Louis was in bed when she got the call about the shooting. She rushed to the gas station to get near her son.
"And they wouldn’t let me get close to my baby. I just wanted to hold his hand and they wouldn’t let me do that," Louis said. "I just wanted to crawl over there to him."
The mother said she wasn't surprised to hear her son was trying to intervene in a fight.
"That’s what he always did, tried to help others. I taught him that all the years," Louis said
Witnesses said a man and a woman were in an argument, and Price tried to step in. The man assaulted Price, and when officers arrived, they used a taser on Price before the shooting.
Civil rights lawyer Lee Merritt also posted about Price's death. He said he had spoken to the man's family.
"When police arrived, I’m told, he raised his hands and attempted to explain what was going on,"
Merritt wrote on Facebook. "Police fired tasers at him and when his body convulsed from the electrical current, they 'perceived a threat' and shot him to death."
ain't even mourning that c00n
