No Charges in Police Shooting of Fair Lakes Optometrist
Updated 4/17 An article in Saturday's Metro section reports that the FBI has begun a preliminary review of the case.Updated 4/14
According to a Metro section article in this morning's paper, Culosi's family is expressing frustration that their request to the FBI to investigate the case has not been acknowledged. Meanwhile they are saying that the police department's five-hour delay in notifying family members of Culosi's death prevented him from receiving last rites.
Originally posted 3/24
Fairfax County's chief prosecutor has declined to file charges against a police officer who fatally shot a man who was suspected of running an illegal gambling operation, according to this article from this morning's Metro section. His family decried the decision.
Salvatore J. Culosi, 37 was killed in January while a police SWAT team was attempting to arrest him outside his Fair Lakes townhouse. Investigators have concluded that the shooting was an accident.
Culosi's family disagree with the decision not to file charges and have launched a website http://www.justiceforsal.com, in protest.
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Posted by: Time To Remember | March 28, 2006 1:21 PM
Here's another link:
http://www.tokyo-blues.com/John_Jackson_obit.html
"John Jr., a janitor at the Talent House School in Fairfax, was shot to death in 1978 by Fairfax County police when officers mistook him for a burglar."
Would the Post consider a retrospective on this?
Posted by: Time To Remember | March 28, 2006 3:15 PM
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Does no one care?
It reminds me of the shooting of the blues singer John Jackson's son. Only there he was at his job as I remember it.
This website mentions the incident:
http://www.bluesworld.com/JohnJackson.html
"including the accidental shooting by the police of his son, John Jr., in 1978"
How many others have there been?