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Outside, NPR, Bloomberg Businessweek, and 99% Invisible. You can find more of her work at stephjoyce.com. Travis isn’t finished looking for answers. Last fall, both a New Mexico district attorney and a U.S. attorney declined to pursue any criminal charges in the case. In December, Travis and Kimberly Beck, Gage’s mother, filed a civil suit in federal court against Mitchell and the National Park Service. The suit alleges that Mitchell’s actions violated Gage’s constitutional rights, including his Fourth Amendment right to be protected against the use of excessive force. It points out that when Mitchell decided to use a Taser, he had pulled Gage over for a misdemeanor traffic violation and that Gage had only passively resisted the ranger’s commands. Gage’s parents are seeking a jury trial and unspecified damages. (The case is ongoing; no trial date has been set.) ....
Editorâs note: This is part of a series in which the Montrose Daily Press will recap the top stories of 2020. The stories will run this week, concluding New Yearâs Day. A local family is pushing the National Park Service for accountability, after a ranger fatally shot their son during a March traffic stop. Montrose native Charles âGageâ Lorentz was 25. He was headed home from Texas on March 21, and was to stop at Carlsbad Caverns National Park to meet a friend. There, he was pulled over by a park ranger. Video footage obtained by KOBTV in New Mexico shows part of the encounter between Lorentz and the ranger, identified as Robert Mitchell. The encounter ends with Lorentz being shot twice, once in the chest. ....
The family of a Montrose man who was fatally shot by a park ranger at Carlsbad Caverns National Park earlier this year is suing the ranger and the U.S. Department of the Interior (National Park Service) for wrongful death. The March 21 shooting of Charles âGageâ Lorentz, 25, during a traffic stop in the New Mexico park as he was on his way home amounted to a violation of his civil rights, Lorentzâs parents Kimberly Beck and Travis Lorentz say in a federal suit filed Dec. 10. The two in July raised concerns that their sonâs death was being covered up, but said they were not going to let that happen. ....