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The news link has video of the incident, cuts off just prior to the actual shooting (of course )
SAN ANTONIO – A federal civil trial started Monday for two Bexar County deputies who shot and killed a man in 2015.
Gilbert Flores was shot and killed after deputies responded to his Northwest side home for a disturbance call.
Flores’ wife, Maritza Amador, said he assaulted her while she was holding their newborn baby. When deputies arrived, Flores confronted them with a knife.
Video emerged after the shooting from a bystander that showed Flores in a 12-minute confrontation with deputies Greg Vasquez and Robert Sanchez outside the home.
Moments leading up to shots being fired, it appears that Flores had surrendered and had his hands up.
Shortly after the fatal shooting, Flores’ widow and family filed a lawsuit.
The federal civil trial started Monday and on Tuesday, Deputy Greg Vasquez was questioned on the stand.
Vasquez was the first deputy at the scene and the first one to fire a shot at Flores.
“I was trying to de-escalate the whole time I was there,” Vasquez said on the stand.
Vasquez explained that Flores had lunged at him several times with his knife, taken his stun gun after striking him with it and was also looking inside his patrol unit.
“The situation was getting bad to worse,” Vasquez said.
Lawyers for the Flores family pushed Vasquez on the fact that Flores had his hands up and doesn’t appear to be lunging at him when he fired the shot.
Vasquez responded by saying Flores was still a threat until he drops the knife.
A video shot by a bystander was shown to the jury and it was shown frame by frame during testimony by a forensics digital analyst.
The analyst concluded that, for about four seconds, Flores’ hands, the knife he was holding and his feet were not moving when the deputies fired two shots at him.
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