The mother of “ER” actress Vanessa Marquez, who was shot by police at her home in 2018, filed a lawsuit against the city of South Pasadena on Wednesday.
The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, claims that paramedics were performing a wellness check on 49-year-old Marquez when police escalated the tension after she refused to be taken to a hospital.
The suit was obtained by NBC Los Angeles.
“This is exactly the kind of lethal and unnecessary police action that has led so many in the country to call out for police reform,” the mother’s attorney Vicki I. Sarmiento told the outlet.
https://nypost.com/2020/06/25/mom-of-late-er-actress-suing-pasadena-over-daughters-shooting/