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Family and friends remembered Stanley LaVon Gibson on Friday as a patriotic Gulf War veteran, a loving but troubled husband, brother, son and uncle, and a Las Vegas black man whose death at the hands of police they hope will spur reforms involving the use of deadly force.
The officer who shot and killed Stanley Gibson last week had been told of a plan to take the man alive shortly before he fired, several Metropolitan Police Department sources told the Review-Journal.
Las Vegas cops are on the defensive. In the past two weeks, they’ve endured a critical Review-Journal investigation of officer-involved shootings, one of the most troubling shootings in Metropolitan Police Department history and calls by civil rights groups for a federal investigation.
Las Vegas police on Friday released details showing that plans to safely resolve a standoff with a disabled veteran this week went awry, ending with an officer firing seven rounds into the unarmed man’s car, killing him.
Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie would support a federal investigation into Las Vegas police shootings, he said Thursday, lending weight to recent calls by civil rights groups for such a probe.
The Las Vegas police officer who shot and killed a disabled war veteran Monday had a lengthy history of citizen complaints and internal discipline, sources told the Review-Journal on Tuesday.
A breakdown in communication between police supervisors and the firing officer might have contributed to the shooting Monday of disabled veteran Stanley Gibson, multiple department sources said.