A vigil was held on Sunday in Santa Rosa to mark 10 years since 13-year-old Andy Lopez was shot and killed by a Sonoma County Sheriff's deputy. Andy was walking down the street carrying a toy rifle, that police said looked real.
A vigil was held in Santa Rosa to mark the 10-year anniversary of the shooting death of Andy Lopez. Sonoma County sheriff's deputies shot the 13-year-old after mistaking an airsoft gun as an assault rifle.A vigil was held on Sunday in Santa Rosa to mark 10 years since 13-year-old Andy Lopez was shot and killed by a Sonoma County Sheriff's deputy. "I am only a mother in soul and in grief, who died along with her son," Andy Lopez's mother, Sujey, said through a translator.
"To remember Andy Lopez is to honor and remember the fact that there is still a lot of work to do," said Santa Rosa School Board trustee. The Lopez family later settled a civil lawsuit with Sonoma County for $3 million. Gelhaus was later promoted and then retired with a pension. "My intension is to make you wake up and open your eyes and really know that there is no justice," Andy Lopez's father, Rodrigo, said through a translator.
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