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Lawyer: Witness differs from police over shooting of Mexican by Texas officer

Monica S. Nagy - Fort worth Star-Telegram

March 11, 2015 03:50 PM

Protesters marched Tuesday, March 10, 2015, in downtown Grapevine, Texas, demanding the release of a police dashcam video of the confrontation between Ruben Garcia Villalpando and the Grapevine officer who shot him.
Protesters marched Tuesday, March 10, 2015, in downtown Grapevine, Texas, demanding the release of a police dashcam video of the confrontation between Ruben Garcia Villalpando and the Grapevine officer who shot him. Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Protesters marched Tuesday, March 10, 2015, in downtown Grapevine, Texas, demanding the release of a police dashcam video of the confrontation between Ruben Garcia Villalpando and the Grapevine officer who shot him. Fort Worth Star-Telegram

The attorney representing the family of a man shot and killed by a Grapevine police officer said an eyewitness to the shooting offers a “very different” version from what police say happened.

Dallas attorney Domingo Garcia said the eyewitness will talk about the shooting and its aftermath at a Thursday morning news conference in Dallas. Garcia said the woman has talked to detectives, but police in Euless, the suburban community where the shooting took place, would not confirm that.

No other information was available about the woman who will speak.

Mexican national Ruben García Villalpando, 31, was fatally shot twice in the chest by Grapevine police officer Robert Clark on Feb. 20 on a Texas 121 service road in Euless after a brief pursuit.

The Mexican government has condemned the shooting and protests have been conducted in downtown Grapevine each of the past two Tuesdays demanding that a dashcam video of Garcia's confrontation with Clark be released.

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