The parents of a man fatally shot by San Diego police officers filed a wrongful death lawsuit this week against the city and the officers involved, with the lawsuit alleging the man was shot while he was surrendering.
The April 14, 2025, shooting of 37-year-old Enrique Cortez Jr. followed a police chase that began in San Ysidro and ended with Cortez shot while behind the wheel of a pickup truck that crashed into a Golden Hill home.
The lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court claims Cortez had his arms extended out of the driver’s side window of the disabled truck just before he was shot “while he was obviously attempting to surrender and posed no threat to officers.”…