This man of color is another victim of police killing, and similar to George Floyd's death, he was unarmed and kneeling to when a cop shot him, reports said. This time, the killing took place in California.

Sean Monterrosa, a Latino man from San Francisco, was reportedly kneeling on the ground when Vallejo police fatally shot him early morning on Tuesday. 

Chief Shawny Williams said, 22-year-old "Monterrosa was kneeling in front of a Walgreens he was alleged of breaking into" when he was shot by an officer. Records showed he was shot five times through the windshield of a car.

The police chief claimed that the cop was among the many that arrived at around 12:36 a.m. in the Walgreens parking lot where there was a crowd of up to 12 people.

Responding to Reports of Looting

Heavy.com reported, police first received a call to the Walgreens in the evening on June 1, at around 10:17 p.m. in the middle of reports of looting. 

Then, two hours later, officers again received a call, the second, specifying that looters had gone back to the Walgreens, trying "to break into the pharmacy."

Upon arrival at the scene, police then started to observe the crowd said to be filing into a black sedan and a silver truck. 

The officers also claimed, the black sedan bumped into the unmarked cruising resulting in an injury of the officer inside the vehicle before the rushed out of the parking lot behind the truck. Not long after, Williams said, the silver truck was apprehended.

Williams claimed too, as reports indicated, Monterrosa was trying to escape the scene but changed his mind. He, the police chief continued, seemed "to be running toward the black sudden." Abruptly though, the officer said, Monterrosa, stopped, took a kneeling position, and placed both of his hands above his waist.

While in kneeling position, the suspected looter was reportedly revealing what seemed to be a handgun's butt, which later on, the investigations unveiled to be a "long 15-inch hammer" tucked inside his top's pocket.

Williams also explained that the officer, who remains unidentified until now, assumed that the hammer inside Monterrosa's pocket was a gun and thus, he did not waste any more time to take aim at him, "firing several shots" although, he reported, just one bullet hit the victim.

What Threat was Presented?

The officer who shot Monterrosa, though remains unidentified, has reportedly been a part of the force for 18 years now.

According to John Burris, the Monterrosa family's attorney, the officer did not see the 22-year-old man "put his hands on in a threatening way." The question here, therefore, is, the lawyer continued, "What threat if any, did he actually present?"

The authorities, for their part, said Monterrosa had engaged in looting the Walgreens in the middle of demonstrations over the police killing of George Floyd, also an unarmed "man of color."

A GoFundMe page has been made on behalf of the victim's family to pay for the legal expenses, as well as his funeral.

Incidentally, Vallejo police force came under fire in 2019 for the deadly shooting of 20-year-old aspiring rapper, Willie McCoy. He was reportedly shot more than 50 times by police while he was sleeping inside his car at a Taco Bell branch.

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