The family of Michael Nunez said he started getting delusional just days before the encounter with law enforcement, in which he lost his life. His family, and advocates, said it's evidence of a broken mental health system that often puts police in the unenviable position of weighing a person's individual liberties against medical care.
teacher help before he was shot and killed in an officer-involved shooting back in March.
It paints a picture of a family navigating an, at times, tough to understand system and begging for help, but unable to find it. "He told me that he needed to look in our eyes and make sure that everything was okay. And that if it was okay, he would let us go," Lopez said. "I know that Michael loved us with all of his heart. But I do believe he would have killed us that night had we gone."
"We're angels, we have one day. I'm supposed to dump all the trash, it's giving me clues to continue. I don't know if you've seen field of dreams," Nunez said. State law allows an officer to take a person directly to a mental health facility if they believe a person who appears mentally ill might harm themselves or others and "the risk of harm is imminent unless the person is immediately restrained."
Nunez was ultimately booked into the Tri-City Jail, a small, municipal jail shared by four cities, including DeSoto. Police responded to the location, which was within walking distance from the jail, and encountered Nunez."When you are addressed with someone with a lethal weapon, a knife, the officer believed it was a knife, as you heard him say ‘he’s got a knife,’ then the only response was lethal force," DeSoto Police Chief Joseph Costa said previously when addressing this case.Police say a DeSoto man lunged at officers with what appeared to be a homemade knife before an officer fatally shot him.
Gundu said the best solution would be if a person in crisis gets help before an officer decides whether they are an imminent risk.
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