Hector Morejon is shown in a family photo with his mother, Lucia Morejon.
Matt Hamilton writes at the LA Times:
A veteran of the Long Beach Police Department was identified Tuesday as the officer who fatally shot an unarmed 19-year-old last month while responding to a reported vandalism, authorities said.
The Long Beach Police Department said Jeffrey A. Meyer, a patrol officer with the department since 1990, opened fire at Hector Morejon in the afternoon of April 23. The department released the information in response to a public records request filed by The Times.
Meyer, who has been removed from field duties, was involved in a police shooting in March 2002, according to a Police Department spokeswoman. The circumstances of the 2002 shooting were not immediately available.
The president of the Long Beach Police Officers Assn., Steve James, opposed the decision by The Times to publish the name of the police officer involved in the shooting.
The investigation into Morejon’s death is ongoing. A day after the shooting, the department said that officers were called to a vacant apartment in the 1100 block of Hoffman Avenue on a report that several people were trespassing and vandalizing the residence.
An officer, now identified as Meyer, looked into the apartment and saw Morejon standing against a wall, then turn toward him, police said.
Morejon allegedly bent his knees and extended his arm “as if pointing an object, which the officer perceived was a gun,” police said. The shooting then occurred.
Morejon was transported to the hospital where he died. No weapons were found at the scene.
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