The family of a man shot and killed by police outside his mother’s Manchester home in April expressed disappointment Monday in a prosecutor’s ruling that said the officers had “reasonably believed” he had a gun and cleared them of wrongdoing, saying they had told police at the scene that night that was not the case.
“One thing that we want to make clear ... we know that there were no weapons in the house," Anthony Vazquez, Jose Soto’s stepfather, said at a gathering outside Manchester Town Hall Monday evening. “We told everybody that night: there’s no guns.”
Vazquez said both he and Soto’s mother told officers they would help get him out of house but that their help was refused.