On May 7, 2021, Trevor Mullinax was shot 50 times by South Carolina police, who had been alerted by friends of Mullinax because he was experiencing a mental health crisis leading to suicidal intentions.
The young man was inside his vehicle, armed with a knife, when the agents drew their weapons as soon as they arrived in the area and began shooting at him. Tammy Beason, Trevor's mother, was next to the vehicle and had to move away from her quickly to avoid the shooting.
Mullinax, despite receiving 9 shots to the body (3 of them to the head), survived the attack after being taken to hospital. Now, two years later, he and his mother have sued York County sheriff's deputies for using deadly force against them.
"They were grossly negligent, willful, wanton, careless, and reckless in their use of deadly force toward Trevor Mullinax and Tammy Beason, causing physical, mental, mental, irreparable, permanent, and emotional harm to both," the complaint reads. to which CNN has had access.
However, the police force accuses Mullinax of "pointing and presenting a weapon against them", something that his lawyers justify that although "he was in legal possession of a hunting rifle inside the truck, at no time before, during or after the sheriff's deputies began shooting, Trevor stood up, pointed, or moved the gun so that the deputies would do so."
In addition, according to the victim's friends, they provided the telephone numbers of Mullinax and his mother so that the police could contact them, something that could not happen due to the fact that the emergency services teleoperator did not provide that information to the agents.
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