Deadly Police Shooting in Washington State Draws Criticism from Mexico The Associated Press
go to original February 13, 2015

Police in Pasco, Wash fatally shoot man Antonio Zambrano-Montes, 35, hurling rocks in street (LoneWolf Sager)

Police who shot and killed a man accused of hurling rocks at officers in southeastern Washington are drawing criticism from as far away as Mexico.

The death Tuesday of orchard worker Antonio Zambrano-Montes is the fourth fatal police shooting since last summer in Pasco, an agricultural city of 68,000 people about 215 miles southeast of Seattle. It has sparked protests after witnesses said he was running away when he was shot in a busy intersection.

Mexico's Foreign Relations Department on Thursday condemned the shooting of the man raised in that country. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said he was monitoring the situation.

"We are going to need to get to the bottom of understanding the circumstances of this," the governor said. "There will be, and needs to be, a very complete assessment of all of the circumstances of what happened here."

Franklin County Coroner Dan Blasdel, whose office was conducting an autopsy on Zambrano-Montes, said he was considering convening an inquest jury to look into the death.

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