At Rest

Deadly force
Officers Joseph Gorena and Juan Hernandez responded to a call from Fidencio Soto, 39, who stated that Hernandez had shot him in the head (non-lethal injury). Police say that when they arrived, Hernandez, wheelchair bound from being shot by police at 16, refused to put his hands up and pointed his loaded, cocked handgun at them. They shot him several times in the torso.
This record exists so that Carlos Mendoza Hernandez, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.
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