OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) — Witness testimony began Wednesday in the civil trial of a case centered on a Redwood City police officer-involved shooting and subsequent death of a man after his wife called 911 while he was experiencing a mental health crisis.
On Dec. 10. 2018, at approximately 8 a.m., two Redwood City police officers, Roman Gomez and Lelia Velez arrived at the Hart residence while Kristen Hart was still on the phone with dispatch explaining that her husband was harming himself with a knife in an attempt to end his life.
After seeing Kristen Hart in the front yard of her home with her shirt covered in Kyle Hart’s blood from self-inflicted knife wounds, Gomez told Velez for her to be “less lethal” and he would be “lethal,” meaning she would use a Taser, and he drew his gun as the approached the man, who was holding a knife in his back yard…