Apache Junction police officers killed a deaf man.
The officers shot and killed Charles Back outside his home in Apache Junction around 7:30 p.m. on Valentine’s Day. Charles Back allegedly raised what turned out to be a BB gun at the officers and didn’t comply with their commands to drop it. Now, his son, Adam Back, has revealed in a wrongful death lawsuit filed this week that his father didn’t drop the gun because the 69-year-old military veteran couldn’t hear the officers.
“Because of his profound deafness, Charles could not hear the officers’ commands,” the lawsuit’s complaint reads…