Baytown, Texas, police officer was acquitted in the 2019 fatal shooting of Pamela Turner.
Houston, October 14 (RHC)-- A Baytown, Texas, police officer was acquitted in the 2019 fatal shooting of Pamela Turner.
Juan Delacruz was on trial for aggravated assault for shooting Turner, a 44-year-old Black woman and grandmother, five times in an apartment complex while trying to arrest her in May 2019.
Pamela Turner’s family says she was having a mental health crisis and that Delacruz knew Turner had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.
Turner and Delacruz lived in the same apartment complex, where Delacruz also served as a security guard.