Juan Carlos Estrada was shot dead by the police (VIDEO AND PHOTOS)

• Juan Carlos Estrada was shot dead in California by police officers who were going to arrest him.
• Officers from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office were responsible for the shooting.
• The Riverside County Prosecutor’s Office is already investigating whether the agents incurred in excess of their duties.

He points something at the policemen. «Gun, gun, gun!» the officers yell and shoot. Estrada falls dead. Those were the last moments in Estrada’s life due to shots from agents of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office (RCSO). In his hand the Hispanic man carried a bottle of water, not a gun.

The Hispanic Juan Carlos Estrada, 40, had an arrest warrant for kidnapping accused by the Moreno Valle Police Department (MVPD) and the corporation asked for the support of their RCSO colleagues to arrest the man last Saturday, April 3, 2021, which ended with his death.

Juan Carlos Estrada was shot dead by the police

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco revealed on the corporation’s official YouTube channel the video with the perspective of the body cameras of the RCSO agents who participated in the shooting against him and that caused his death. .

The video of the incident in the death of Estrada, which can be consulted here, although it is not recommended that it be viewed by minors due to the harshness of the images. Bianco offered the video publicly to make the actions of his officers transparent when they thought that Juan Carlos Estrada carried a pistol in an incident that has outraged the community.

Details on the death of Juan Carlos Estrada

RCSO spokeswoman Sergeant Deanna Pecoraro sent MundoHispánico an email with the details of the incident that caused the death of Juan Carlos Estrada. The man at the time of death had an arrest warrant for a serious case of violent kidnapping. It is not specified who he kidnapped armed with a knife.

On Saturday, April 3, 2021 at 6:25 in the afternoon assigned to the Moreno Valley Station they received a call from their MVPD colleagues to assist them in the investigation and arrest of a Hispanic man accused of kidnapping and who could be Hidden somewhere in that California town

Juan Carlos Estrada already had a record

Moreno Valley is a city located in the east center of the state of California, on the I-10 highway, at the foot of the mountains of the San Bernardino National Forest. The information that the RCSO agents received is that the suspect, Juan Carlos Estrada, was originally from Corona, California, but was hiding in Moreno Valley.

The arrest warrant against Juan Carlos Estrada indicated him as allegedly responsible for a kidnapping and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a knife, allegedly against a woman. It is not detailed in the information who he kidnapped or why.

A woman reveals the whereabouts of Juan Carlos Estrada

Based on this information, the RCSO agents begin to investigate and discover that the man could be hiding in a house located at 16000 La Fortuna Lane, a dead-end street, where perhaps the victim was also present. A person inside the house calls the RCSO emergency number and reveals that Estrada is there.

The RCSO patrols receive the information from their emergency center and then several patrols go to the house where the fugitive Juan Carlos Estada was allegedly hiding, who was classified as violent and perhaps armed. The house is located in a Cul de Sac (Bottom of the bag) which is a semicircular street design with several houses around it.

The police demand that Juan Carlos Estrada go out on the street

When the patrols arrive at La Fortuna Lane, they all put their patrol cars in front of the home where Estrada was supposedly hiding and with the loudspeakers, hidden behind the doors of their vehicles, they ordered the fugitive to leave. The whole story is contained in the videos of the body cameras of the agents.

An RCSO patrolman was placed with his patrol in the house next door, protected by a fence, and on the side covers his companions who are parked in front. Then they take out their weapons and start yelling at Estrada that they know he’s inside, that he has an arrest warrant and that it is better that he turn himself in.

Juan Carlos Estrada leaves the house and walks towards the police

Just at that moment a woman called the emergency number again and tells the operator that she is inside the house with Juan Carlos Estrada and that she is very scared. The woman tells the operator that she thinks the man is carrying a gun. At that moment, Estrada leaves the house and walks towards the officers.

The cops yell at him to turn around and with his arms up. During some moments Juan Carlos Estrada follows the orders of the agents. However, for some reason that will never be known, he turns to the RCSO patrol cars and with a dark-hued object in his hand, he points them at them.

«Gun, gun, gun!»

It is then that the at least four police officers who are in front of the house shout «gun, gun, gun!» alerting each other to the alleged pistol carried by Juan Carlos Estrada. Only the officer who is stationed next to the house is the only one who does not shoot.

The rain of bullets that falls on Estrada causes him to collapse in the garage of the house, next to a car, and when the agents run to try to assist him, they can no longer do anything to save his life. Juan Carlos Estrada is declared dead at the scene.

The officers involved are removed from their positions

According to information from RCSO spokesperson Sergeant Deanna Pecoraro, the names and ranks of the agents involved in the incident will not be released by the corporation. The four officers were placed in administrative duties while investigations are being conducted in the case for the death of Juan Carlos Estrada.

Estrada’s death was referred for investigation to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office of the Prosecutor, according to Sergeant Deanna Pecoraro, which will determine whether the officers involved in Juan Carlos Estrada’s death exceeded their duties. .

Juan Carlos Estrada, one case among hundreds

By email MundoHispánico requested information from the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office about the status of the investigation into the death of Hispanic Juan Carlos Estrada. However, as of this writing, the corporation had not responded.

According to an investigation by the American magazine Newsweek At least 1,050 people, called civilians, have died from clashes with the police between May 25, 2020, when African American George Floyd died of asphyxia by police, until April 21, 2021 when Derek Chauvin, the policeman who suffocated with the knee to Floyd, he was found guilty.

«Any policeman can kill you at any time»

Journalist David Brennan signs the article 1,050 people were killed in police encounters between George Floyd’s murder and Derek Chauvin’s verdict (Newsweek 04/28/2021) in which he gives an account of the people who have died in the United States by the authorities.

The death of the Hispanic Juan Carlos Estrada is part of the investigation that journalist David Brennan followed for months to be able to write his report. The author quotes Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown University law holder dealing with police killings of civilians, saying «any (police) can kill you at any time.»

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