Jose Pacheco Ceballos

Deadly force

Jose Ceballos became involved in a fight at an apartment. Officer William Bridgewater responded, and kicked down the apartment door as Sergeant Jose Porras arrived and someone in the apartment screamed. Ceballos confronted the officers with a cigarette in one hand and a knife in the other. He flicked the cigarette at the officers and raised his knife hand. Officer Bridgewater shot him once, fatally, in the chest.