The wife of an emotionally disturbed man killed in a police-involved shooting tearfully testified Wednesday that she was more concerned for his well-being than her own when she called 911.
Ana Martinez told jurors she was worried about hubby Mauricio Jaquez, 35, who was foaming at the mouth and ranting about demons in April 2009.
“Were you scared he was going to hurt you?” asked her lawyer, Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma.
“Never,” she said at the civil trial of a cop who fired the last of five shots at Jaquez. “The reason I was scared [was because] my husband had a similar relapse previously where he was acting the same way.”
A Manhattan judge ruled that four of five bullets that hit knife-wielding Jaquez were reasonable. Sgt. William Flores, who fired the fifth, is accused of excessive force.