The attorneys for the family of an El Paso man whose controversial death while being arrested by police on Interstate 10 was ruled a homicide are asking for witnesses to come forward.
Xavier Guadalupe Hernandez, 30, died on July 13 after he was shocked multiple times with a Taser and pinned down by police officers for more than five minutes along I-10.
“He was in pain, in crisis, and he begged, ‘Someone call 911, please.’ Instead of compassion, instead of care, he was met with tasers, chokeholds, fists, and the crushing weight of officers pinning him down face-first on burning asphalt until he could no longer breathe,” his mother, Angelica Lujan, said in a statement issued through the family’s attorneys on Wednesday, Sept. 3…