Wife of Victim Killed By Humble Police Officer Says Shooting Was No Accident

Wife of Victim Says Shooting Was No Accident: MyFoxHOUSTON.com

Humble, Texas

Questions are surfacing about a recent fatal police shooting at Deerbrook Mall. An earlier report indicated even experts who reviewed the case are questioning the police officer’s method of using his gun to break a window. The victim's wife is speaking out and she has some unusual evidence.

The Humble Police Department is calling it an accident, but was it? That's what the victim's family is asking, especially after the victim's wife received a voicemail that recorded the entire shooting.

Police said they responded to a burglary-in progress call at the mall on Monday. Officers saw one of the burglars get out of a victim's car and into an alleged get-away car.

Officers went up to that car and one tried to break-in the window with his gun. He says it accidentally went off, shooting and killing 23-year old Esteban Carlon.
Esteban's wife tells us during this whole incident, her brother-in-law, Joaquin, called her phone. No one answered and the shooting was recorded on her voicemail.

A local community activist says, “This police officer, on that faithful day yesterday, became the judge, the jury and the executioner. If this young man was truly breaking into a vehicle, that’s why we have a system, we have a judge, we have a jail we have prosecutors. You give a man his day in court, innocent until proven guilty.”

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