Family of man killed by Marshals in warrant service will file suit; attorney claims man was shot ‘execution style’

Albuquerque attorney Bob Gorence said Tuesday he will file a federal tort claim notice to sue the federal government over the shooting death of 23-year-old Edgar Camacho-Alvarado.

A news release from Gorence’s office Tuesday also alleges that the Office of Medical Investigator has deemed his death to be a homicide, though most killings of a person by another person are, and that federal agents shot Camacho-Alvarado “execution style.”

Read the letter in full here.

“Multiple eye witness accounts [say] that federal agents dragged Mr. Alvarado from the house after he had been shot in the back and, while gurgling and flailing his arms and, unable to respond to law enforcement commands, he was shot execution style in a coup de grace a final time in the back,” Gorence wrote in the news release.

Gorence wrote that if that is true, marshals would have violated Camacho-Alavarado’s Fourth Amendment rights.

His news release also says that agents were authorized a state search warrant that authorized only a daytime search warrant to try and find fugitive George Bond, and also alleges that the warrant was mistakenly issued for the wrong trailer lot.

Gorence has asked for all law enforcement reports relating to the incident, and goes on to talk about the differences in federal and state laws in being able to obtain information about law enforcement activities.

None of the claims in Gorence’s letter have been substantiated by law enforcement so far.

This story was originally published at KOB.com