Relatives of Jose Enrique Cartagena Chacon, 25, have received few details from the Lenexa Police Department about the shooting and what led up to it. Though family members requested last month to see body camera footage from the early morning June 22 shooting, they have yet to be able to do that.
“We’re going to be working toward trying to obtain access for the family to view the body cam or dash cam videos for the police who were there,” said Ben Stelter-Embry, a Kansas City area attorney, “and emergency responders in the early morning hours of the shooting.”
Stelter-Embry, of Embry Law, is working alongside Chicago attorneys Andrew Stroth of Action Injury Law and Steven Hart of Hart, McLaughlin & Eldridge.
The team of attorneys is also involved in representing the brother of Cedric “CJ” Lofton, a Kansas foster child who died in September 2021 in the custody of officers at the Sedgwick County Juvenile Intake and Assessment Center in Wichita. The 17-year-old, according to media reports, was restrained in the prone position for more than 40 minutes until his heart stopped beating. Lofton was later resuscitated but never regained consciousness. He died two days later in the hospital, his death later ruled a homicide…