Claim: Kaldrick Donald was unnecessarily shot and killed by a police officer after his mother called police for assistance in transporting him to a mental hospital.
Examples: [Collected via e-mail, November 2014]
is this true?
Mother Calls Police to Help Her Son Take His Medicine, Cop Shows Up and
Shoots Him
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The account described the officer's actions as
Brown murdered Donald in the presence his pregnant sister and mother, and no one can even say why. He was completely unarmed, and somehow not completely sane. His mother said "I heard my baby say, I want my mama after he shot him, and then I didn't hear anything else." His mother said she was "expecting them to take him to the Apalachee Center like before", but instead a single officer came and escalated the situation, murdering him in front of his family.
Charles Brown ended up tasing Kaldrick Donald repeatedly, and then took him into the isolated bathroom in the family's house and shot him multiple times, killing him.
The circulating account was indeed troubling but it lacked a number of elements necessary for it to be accepted at face value. On
According to witnesses, Gretna PD was called to a home on Cornelius Harris Lane
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Once the officer got to Donald's house, he and the officer got into a fight. Investigator Ulysses Jenkins of Gadsden County Sheriff's Office said, "The police officer arrived, a struggle ensued and from that point during the altercation and suspect is now deceased." "Our hearts and minds are with them during this time, it's a very troubling incident but we're doing everything we can to support the officer and the family," said Jenkins.
The Gadsden County Sheriff's office tells us they had received a call from Donald's mother saying her son needed to be taken to a mental hospital.
In March 2015, a Gadsden County Grand Jury deemed that Gretna Police Sergeant Charles Brown was justified in his shooting of Kaldrick:
Back on October 28th, Juanita called the police because her son hadn't taken his medication. She said when Sgt. Brown arrived, he was belligerent with Kaldrick. The two men ended up in the bathroom, where the shooting happened. The investigative report from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement says Kaldrick had punched Brown in his eye. It also says: "Sgt. Brown advised as the fight entered the bathroom, the floor gave way and his legs became pinned in the floor, leaving him trapped and defenseless. Sgt. Brown added he lost vision in his left eye due to the punches he sustained from Mr. Donald and began to feel lightheaded. Sgt. Brown added he believed his life was in immediate danger and that he was going to lose consciousness. This fear prompted Sgt. Brown un-holstered his firearm and began to fire it at Mr. Donald. Sgt. Brown stated Mr. Donald was on top of him during this time."
A grand jury has said Gretna Police Sgt. Charles Brown didn't do anything wrong during the October shooting death of 24-year-old Kaldrick Donald
Last updated: 10 May 2015
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