Ray Raymond Valdez

Deadly force

A Park Police officer was flagged down by a woman and told her boyfriend was assaulting her. The officer attempted to intervene when the woman's boyfriend pulled a knife on the officer. The woman attempted to wrestle the knife away from her boyfriend, but was unsuccessful, and the man charged at the officer. The officer deployed his Taser, but the taser was ineffective, prompting the officer to shoot and kill Ray Raymond Valdez.