A federal jury has awarded $13.1 million to the parents of a mentally ill California man who was shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy after a violent confrontation in 2020.
Jurors delivered the verdict over the August 2020 shooting death of Jeffrey Alexander Monroy, 33, who was fatally shot in Rancho Mirage by Riverside County Sheriff’s Deputy Cpl. Ruben Perez, according to KTLA, The Orange County Register and KESQ.
Monroy had been working with his father’s pool service company when he became agitated and left the job site. He then walked through the 70800 block of Tamarisk Lane, approaching residents to ask if he could borrow a phone to call his brother for a ride home, KTLA and the Register reported…