An attorney representing the parents of an unarmed man killed by a sheriff’s sergeant told a federal jury that the blood, ballistic and photographic evidence will show the sergeant lied about what caused the shooting.
Attorney Wallace McCall also said during opening statements of Seth Adams’ family’s lawsuit against Sgt. Michael Custer and the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office that sheriff’s administrators failed to do a fair investigation of the May 16, 2012, shooting and perhaps colluded to destroy evidence. The shooting happened just before midnight as Adams returned from a bar to his garden shop, where he lived on the property with his brother and sister-in-law.
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