The parents of Seth Adams are sure Sgt. Michael Custer is lying about why he fatally shot their unarmed son in the parking lot of the family’s nursery business nearly five years ago, even though the sheriff’s deputy was cleared by investigators.
The family gets the chance to prove its allegations as a federal civil rights trial against Custer and the sheriff’s office started Monday with jury selection. The Adams family and their attorneys say ballistics tests, contradictions in Custer’s statements and observations by his Palm Beach County colleagues undermine his account of Adams as an immediate and persistent aggressor in the confrontation.
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