In order to preserve their cover story, the police insisted on treating Anthony like the suspect in a drug bust, forbidding family and friends to visit him in the hospital. The officers later dragged the wounded man onto gravel, then shoved him on top of the hood of a cruiser and “drove the squad car down the street with Tony lying on top, writhing in pain.” Officers callously ignored his request and painfully dragged Tony by his injured leg, through the home and out to his backyard patio, where they left him bloodied and shot right in front of Lesley, Matthew and Zachary.” “Tony made what he believed was a dying request to the officers he did not want his young family to see him shot and bloodied. The audiotape didn’t record what happened next, according to the family’s lawsuit:
The entire incident was captured on the 911 recording. “That’s all right,” Coutts consoled Lilly as Anthony was bleeding to death in front of his children. Coutts quickly devised a cover story: In the official version, Anthony had pointed his gun at Officer Lilly, yet somehow managed to take six rounds in the back. Fear not, he and his fellow officers acted quickly to address the most pressing issue - no, not the threat to Anthony’s life, or that posed by the intruder, but rather the risk to the career of the police officer who shot the innocent man.ĭisplaying natural leadership ability, Sgt. “We f***d up,” Lilly reported to his dispatcher. “You just killed the homeowner,” gasped Anthony as he bled into the floor of his house. Arambula could relay those important facts to the other officers, Officer Brian Lilly shot Anthony six times in the back - twice after he had hit the floor.
Coutts neglected - or refused - to pass along this vital information to his fellow tax-devourers. Sean Coutts that her husband had already taken the intruder into custody and was holding him at gunpoint.Įither out of reflexive contempt for a mundane or criminal incompetence, Sgt. Outside the house, Arambula’s wife Lesley informed Sgt.
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