Killing of Fouad Kaady
Fouad Kaady was a resident of Gresham, Oregon who was shot to death by police after being injured in a car wreck.
Police encounter
Fouad slammed his car into two others before crashing his vehicle. His family claims that a gas can in his vehicle exploded in the final crash, setting Fouad on fire, and this was the reason for his erratic driving. Fouad emerged from the wreckage, burned, dazed and nude. Williams J. Bergin, a Sandy, Oregon police officer and David. E. Willard, a Clackamas County deputy, arrived at the scene and observed that Kaady was naked and sitting "Indian style" on the ground and had severe burns all over his body. He was ordered to lie face down on the ground, despite his injuries. When Kaady failed to comply with orders to lie on the ground they used a taser on him multiple times. Kaady allegedly climbed a patrol car and appeared poised to jump the Sandy officer according to official reports; at this point, he was shot seven times and later pronounced dead at the scene. The time between the officers arrival at the scene and the firing of shots was 28 seconds.Eyewitness accounts of the incident are split, with some individuals outraged that the officers used deadly force, stating Fouad was unarmed, naked, badly burned and confused, and had not provoked the officers, and others convinced that the officers acted appropriately. However, there are discrepancies between the shared account of the enforcing officers and the separate witnesses who saw the scene. A subsequent internal investigation ultimately cleared the officers of any misconduct.