Family Blames Cops For Not Trusting Claim “Gun Was Missing A Part” When Man Was Shot

By Bob Owens

A Ukrainian family in Charlotte (NC) believes the shooting of a rifle-armed immigrant by police wasn’t justified because his sister poorly attempting to communicate that the weapon couldn’t fire.

A witness to the fatal police shooting of a Ukrainian immigrant says she tried to tell a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer the rifle her brother held was missing a part and would not fire bullets.

“I yelled, ‘There is no part to the gun,’” Olesya Tabaka recalled. “The officer looked at me and then he fired.”

Tabaka told the Observer that Iaroslav Mosiiuk, 25, had his back turned toward the officer and did not appear to be threatening him with the gun.

She and her family say Mosiiuk was shot in the lower back about 14 seconds after an officer knocked on the door at their home in the 1000 block of Justice Avenue in north Charlotte.

Tabaka said she called 911 about 1 p.m. on March 8 because her brother was behaving erratically and looking for a gun that her boyfriend kept under a bed in a box.

“I was hoping the police would sedate him, take him to the mental hospital,” said Tabaka, a real estate agent who has lived in the United States for …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms