The family attorney for an unarmed man shot and wounded by a Virginia sheriff's deputy said the shooting occurred because of a "failure of communication" between 911 dispatchers and deputies on the scene.
Isaiah Brown, the unarmed man shot and wounded by a Virginia sheriff's deputy in April, was discharged from the hospital Tuesday and will continue his rehabilitation at home, according to his attorney David Haynes of The Cochran Firm.
Isiah Brown, the unarmed man shot and wounded by a Virginia sheriff's deputy in April, was discharged from the hospital Tuesday and will continue his rehabilitation at home, according to his attorney David Haynes of The Cochran Firm.
Virginia deputy mistook cordless house phone for gun in shooting of Black man, attorney says Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY
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A Virginia man is in intensive care after a sheriff s deputy shot him ten times outside his home early Wednesday, his family said.
Isaiah Brown, a 32-year-old Black man, was walking down the street away from his house in Spotsylvania County and was on the phone with a 911 dispatcher when the Virginia sheriff s deputy responded to his house following reports of a domestic incident, according to a police statement, as well as body camera footage and 911 audio.