In photo, Jesus Castillo, father of the late Jesus Castillo, holds a picture of his son during a family a candlelight vigil at Moreno Valley Community Park on July 6, 2012. The family is protesting the shooting of Castillo, 31, by a Riverside County Sheriff's deputy July 1.  From [HERE] The attorney for a Moreno Valley family has asked the U.S. Attorney’s Office to investigate the shooting death of family member Jesus Castillo by a Riverside County sheriff’s deputy.

Luis A. Carrillo wrote in a letter to Andre Birotte Jr., the U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, that witnesses his investigator interviewed contradicted the Sheriff’s Department’s account of the July 1 fight at Moreno Valley Community Park between Castillo and a sheriff’s deputy and the subsequent shooting.

Deputies originally went to the park to investigate a report of a man harassing children near a bathroom. Castillo believes his son was at the park to play soccer. Castillo spoke with the deputy, lifted his shirt to show he didn’t have a weapon and then walked toward a parking lot. The deputy lunged toward Castillo and pulled him to the ground. As they wrestled, the deputy put Castillo in a chokehold. Castillo freed himself and ripped “a speaker” from the deputy’s lapel. Castillo walked away toward a parking lot. The deputy fired three times from 15 feet, twice hitting Castillo in the back. Other deputies arrived, hitting and kicking the fallen Castillo in the face.

One witness, Ronald Carcamo, 31, of Moreno Valley, said that Castillo knocked down the deputy, they struggled, and then the man walked away. Then the deputy pulled a gun and shot the man, who was 15 to 20 feet away, Carcamo said.