Broward Deputy who Shot Mexican Immigrant is Fired
Saturday, April 9, 2005 at 10:19PM
TheSpook
Broward Sheriff Ken Jenne agreed
Thursday to pay for 60 more days of care for a Mexican immigrant
accidentally shot in the head by a deputy who thought he was a burglary
suspect. The deputy involved in the shooting, Louis Perry, said the
Broward Sheriff's Office fired him Thursday in an unrelated matter. BSO
spokesman Jim Leljedal, reached late Thursday, could not confirm
Perry's termination. ''To me, the firing appears to be related to the
shooting,'' said Barbara Duffy, Perry's union attorney. ``The internal
investigation was flawed from the beginning and I can't imagine it
being upheld when we go to arbitration.'' The shooting occurred about
6:40 p.m. Nov. 3 after deputies responded to a call of a burglary at
the Whispering Isles complex on West Sample Road in Pompano Beach.
Deputies Perry, 38, and Richard Mosca, 37, saw two men, Germán Goméz,
and his cousin, Javier Domínguez, 21, who had arrived in Pompano Beach
three days before the shooting. Perry and Mosca, with guns drawn, tried
to talk to the pair, who were walking in the parking lot. Goméz and
Domínguez, undocumented workers from Chiapas, Mexico, did not speak
English. The deputies spoke no Spanish. When Perry attempted to
restrain Goméz, his gun accidentally discharged, he told investigators.
The bullet tore into Goméz's head. [more]
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