It bothers me when a young black man is shot down by the same police who are supposed to protect us. I want to know, ‘Why did they move a dead man’s body and not wait for the coroner?’”Īttorney Milton Grimes, who is representing the family, said, “I talked to a couple of witnesses and they said Moore didn’t have a weapon. But I knew he was already dead in the back yard at least an hour earlier. “The doctor pronounced him dead at the hospital around 6:45 p.m. ‘They murdered an innocent man,” Deeminter said the witness admitted.ĭeeminter said that after Moore was shot, she and family members rushed to Harbor-UCLA Hospital around 6 p.m. “He told me that he saw paramedics working on reviving Moore’s body, but that the body kept flatlining and that Bryan was blue in color. Then she said the sheriff and his partner looked at each other as if to say, ‘Oh, shoot,’ like they knew they had made a fatal mistake.”ĭeeminter said she also talked to the second witness who said he saw the incident through his downstairs bedroom window. She said she heard the gunshots and saw two sheriffs lift Bryan’s body up. “The next day, I talked to one of the neighbors who had been peering through the blinds when the sheriffs approached Bryan. They were very disrespectful and they kept telling me, ‘Get back before we take you to jail,’ so I walked to the front of the house.”Īccording to Deeminter, two witnesses saw the incident. They were moving Bryan’s body and I said, “Why are you moving a dead body?’ They looked at me like I was crazy. About 10 sheriff’s deputies started taping off the back yard with yellow tape. “But before the ambulance got there, within about five minutes, 20 cop cars showed up. “I ran into the back yard and said, ‘What’s going on?’ But I already knew Bryan was dead.”ĭeeminter said while Moore lay on the ground, she frantically tried to call the ambulance on her cell phone. “I did not hear them shout ‘Halt’ or ‘Stop!” recalls Deeminter. “He jumped out of the car and started running,” said Deeminter, who said that Moore suffered from schizophrenia and depression.ĭeeminter said that the officers began chasing Moore and that they ended up in a neighbor’s back yard. I slowed down, and when Bryan saw that they were sheriffs, he said, ‘I don’t want you in this,’ recalls Deeminter, who said that Moore had just been released from jail and was fearful of going back. As we turned on Wadsworth Avenue, I looked in my rearview mirror and saw a sheriff’s car speeding up. “I drove my Jeep Cherokee around the corner and he got into my car on 149th Street. “Bryan was around the corner from my house and he said to come get him,” Deeminter recalled. The police need to stop shooting our babies in the street,” said Moore’s aunt.ĭeeminter recalled the phone call she received from Moore on Thursday around 3:45 p.m. Sheriffs stated that when Moore failed to show his hands after being ordered, the deputy fired his duty weapon at the suspect, striking him.ĭozens of friends and relatives of Moore milled around in the park, many shedding tears as they recalled the young man with the bright smile. The Sheriffs Headquarters Bureau released a statement saying that Moore jumped a fence and was seen holding his waistband. “If a man is running away from you and you shoot him in the back, how is he a threat?” she said. “I want justice,” said the distraught mother as she faced news cameras.ĭuring the candlelight vigil, a fight broke out in the park’s parking lot, prompting sheriff’s deputies to arrive and question residents.Ĭhanta Deeminter, 26, Moore’s girlfriend, said she was stunned that sheriffs allegedly shot Moore, who was unarmed. They won’t even let us see his body,” said Smith.Īlice Smith, the mother, expressed her anger over her son’s death. “He got shot twice in the buttocks and several times in the back. “They shot him in the back like an animal,” said Lorraine Smith, Moore’s aunt. Witnesses said that Moore was allegedly gunned down by sheriff’s deputies after he jumped from his girlfriend’s jeep and began running. Moore, a Compton resident, was shot multiple times Thursday around 6 p.m. Tensions ran high during a candlelight vigil for 26-year-old Bryan David Moore at Campanella Park in Compton Sunday as community activists, family members, and concerned citizens gathered to protest his fatal shooting.
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