Family of 27-year-old man sues San Jose police for agonizing and tortuous death
By Lisa Fernandez
Civil rights suit filed after the San Jose police shooting death of David Tovar Jr.
Civil rights attorneys filed a wrongful death suit against San Jose police for the January 2021 shooting death of David Tovar Jr.
SAN JOSE, Calif. - Civil rights attorneys on Wednesday filed a wrongful death suit against San Jose police after they shot and killed an unarmed 27-year-old man who authorities said was a person of interest in a string of violent crimes including homicide.
But attorneys representing the family of David Tovar Jr. said that no matter what he was accused of, killing him was unnecessary and that his last moments were a painful, agonizing and torturous death.