MEMPHIS, Tenn. — One year ago, U.S. marshals killed Brandon Webber while serving a warrant.
“They said they had evidence that brought them to my son. They never showed me a warrant,” Jaleta Clark, Webber’s mother, said.
Attorneys representing Webber’s family said they need answers from Shelby County District Attorney Amy Wierich’s Office because – one year later – the family has not seen or heard results from a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation probe.
“Me and my son lived together in the same house when he passed, so it’s been tragic,” Sonny Webber, Brandon Webber’s father, said.
U.S. marshals killed Webber in the front yard of his mother’s Frayser home, while serving a warrant for multiple felonies out of Mississippi.
“Me along with the rest of the world are waiting on what evidence that they have to say Brandon Webber was the horrible person that they say that he was,” Clark said.
An autopsy revealed he was shot 16 times, and the family is now prepared to take legal action to learn what happened that day.
According to the Desoto County District Attorney’s Office, marshals targeted Webber for his involvement in a carjacking that ended with a man getting shot five times.
“We have followed up multiple times asking what the status was," said Jake Brown, an attorney representing family.
Brown is also representing Webber’s father as he faces 53 counts of aggravated assault against police officers who worked during the unrest after his son’s death.
“To make matters worse, they came and got me to make me seem like I started a riot on the day my son was killed,” Sonny said. “So it’s devastating.”
Brown said the elder Webber “has a right” to his day in court.
“Unnamed members of the U.S. Marshals Service deprived him of that right,” Brown said.
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