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October 12, 2022

Texas Officer Found Not Guilty for Killing Pamela Turner During a Mental Health Crisis
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A Baytown, Texas, police officer was acquitted in the 2019 fatal
shooting of Pamela Turner. Juan Delacruz was on trial for aggravated
assault for shooting Turner, a 44-year-old Black woman and grandmother,
five times in an apartment complex while trying to arrest her in May
2019. Turner's family says she was having a mental health crisis and
that Delacruz knew Turner had been diagnosed with paranoid
schizophrenia. Turner and Delacruz lived in the same apartment complex,
where Delacruz also served as a security guard.


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