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Seeking full disclosure
I will be curious to find out what really happened here. I think the police is holding back some things that really happened to keep her from going to prison for murder... I will try to keep an eye out on this and find out what she gets and let you all know...
TOLEDO, Ohio - Attorneys representing the family of Linda Hicks, a 62-year-old mentally-ill woman who was a shot twice in the head by Toledo police officer Diane Chandler in December, are demanding answers.
Police said Hicks charged at Officer Chandler and another officer with a pair of scissors before she was killed after the officers were dispatched to a group home on Fernwood Avenue.
The firm e-mailed FOX Toledo News a letter with several questions they feel haven't been answered through all of the investigations.
A grand jury found there was not enough evidence to charge officer Chandler with murder.
But that's one of the things mentioned in the letter - that the grand jury didn't consider any lesser charge in connection with the fatal shooting.
Attorney Charles Boyk, representing the Hicks family and the estate of the late 6-2year-old, said the Hicks can't say if the officer was wrong or right until they know everything that happened.
"What I've found after practicing law for 26 years is there's two sides to every story," Boyd said. "We've heard one side of the story. We haven't heard the other side."
"Ms. Hicks was Tasered twice," he added. "The lady had a pacemaker, (police) is Tasering somebody with a pacemaker. Could that have been the reason that she might've gotten upset with the police officers? That's never been brought out in the public."
Boyk, though the Hicks family, have a series of questions that the city and police department should answer to:
1.Why didn't the responding officers simply close the door to Ms. Hicks' room?
2.Why did the officers use a Taser gun on an elderly woman with a pacemaker, and did the use of the Taser escalate the situation?
3.Why didn't the officers secure Ms. Hicks' room and wait for people better equipped to handle the situation?
4.Did the officers act in a reckless or negligent way given the facts known to them before they responded to the situation?
The family requesting all information relating to this case from the city's legal department and the Toledo Police Department.
Boyk said the Hicks family would like to do their own investigation once they get the materials.
Jen Sorgenfrei, Mayor Mike Bell's spokesperson, said the city is preparing to turn documents over to the attorney.
TOLEDO, Ohio - Attorneys representing the family of Linda Hicks, a 62-year-old mentally-ill woman who was a shot twice in the head by Toledo police officer Diane Chandler in December, are demanding answers.
Police said Hicks charged at Officer Chandler and another officer with a pair of scissors before she was killed after the officers were dispatched to a group home on Fernwood Avenue.
The firm e-mailed FOX Toledo News a letter with several questions they feel haven't been answered through all of the investigations.
A grand jury found there was not enough evidence to charge officer Chandler with murder.
But that's one of the things mentioned in the letter - that the grand jury didn't consider any lesser charge in connection with the fatal shooting.
Attorney Charles Boyk, representing the Hicks family and the estate of the late 6-2year-old, said the Hicks can't say if the officer was wrong or right until they know everything that happened.
"What I've found after practicing law for 26 years is there's two sides to every story," Boyd said. "We've heard one side of the story. We haven't heard the other side."
"Ms. Hicks was Tasered twice," he added. "The lady had a pacemaker, (police) is Tasering somebody with a pacemaker. Could that have been the reason that she might've gotten upset with the police officers? That's never been brought out in the public."
Boyk, though the Hicks family, have a series of questions that the city and police department should answer to:
1.Why didn't the responding officers simply close the door to Ms. Hicks' room?
2.Why did the officers use a Taser gun on an elderly woman with a pacemaker, and did the use of the Taser escalate the situation?
3.Why didn't the officers secure Ms. Hicks' room and wait for people better equipped to handle the situation?
4.Did the officers act in a reckless or negligent way given the facts known to them before they responded to the situation?
The family requesting all information relating to this case from the city's legal department and the Toledo Police Department.
Boyk said the Hicks family would like to do their own investigation once they get the materials.
Jen Sorgenfrei, Mayor Mike Bell's spokesperson, said the city is preparing to turn documents over to the attorney.
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Re: Seeking full disclosure
Hinesite is 20/ 20, when your being attacked you react , better judged by 12, then carried by 6!
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