WASHINGTON — It has been more than a year since a Fairfax County police officer shot and killed Springfield, Virginia, resident John Geer, and the man鈥檚 family is still in a legal battle over his death.
Geer was killed in his doorway in August 2013 by county police officer Adam Torres during a standoff. Geer had guns in his home according to a report released last year and some witnesses claim that he was unarmed when he was shot.
Geer鈥檚 family is suing the police department for wrongful death.
Some say they believe the police department has been stonewalling the public and聽prosecutors聽in the case, but聽the lawyers for Geer鈥檚 family will ask for all internal police affairs files on Torres at a hearing Friday afternoon in Fairfax County Circuit Court,
The Fairfax County police department had remained silent on the August 2013 shooting until Jan. 30, 2015, when a
In addition to the internal affairs files, Geer’s family will also request the files on an incident at the Fairfax County courthouse where Torres was fuming and cursing out an assistant county prosecutor, The Post reports.
There are three other internal affairs complaints or cases against聽Torres and the family lawyers want information to them as well.
Two of the complaints involved car accidents that Torres had in his police cruiser, but neither of the accidents was the officer’s聽fault and the third complaint involved a suspect鈥檚 lost property, The Washington Post reports.
Also, the family lawyers want documents on the internal affairs investigation into the shooting. That investigation began on September 2014.
