Napa County has widened the wildfire evacuation corridor on lower Partrick. Similar safety improvements were made to a total of 120 miles of county roadways this year.
An Oakland law firm announced Tuesday that it has filed a federal wrongful death civil rights lawsuit against Napa County and a sheriff s deputy for what it called an unprovoked killing of a man pulled over for driving without his headlights on.
Juan Adrian Garcia, 47, was shot after a highway stop at Highway 221 and Kaiser Road on Oct. 5, 2020, and died the next day at Queen of the Valley Medical Center. The lawsuit follows a claim for damages filed against the county in January.
âThis unprovoked killing of an unarmed, non-threatening man, followed by their lack of transparency, is a terrible violation of Mr. Garciaâs and his familyâs constitutional rights,â Michael Haddad, an attorney with the law firm Haddad & Sherwin, said in a news release.