The Downey Police Department is facing a wrongful death lawsuit after a father of three was killed in a hit-and-run crash that allegedly involved an officer.
Raymond LaValle was walking down Cedardale Lane near the San Gabriel River in Santa Fe Springs last October when he was allegedly run over by a Downey police officer, according to the family’s attorneys.
At a news conference Tuesday in front of the Hall of Justice in downtown Los Angeles, Joseph LaValle said this of his dad: “I was very blessed to be able to have him as a father.”…