Family files amended civil complaint against state police in 2018 Forward Twp man’s death
State police had nonlethal weapons with them when they shot killed a 73-year-old Forward Township man with Alzheimer’s disease who had an unloaded rifle in his yard on Sept. 18, 2018, according to an amended civil complaint his family filed against the police.
The amended complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh also claims troopers manipulated the wife and daughter of the late Walter Weimann into signing an involuntary mental health commitment form as a guise to authorize them enter the property.
In addition, the new complaint filed last week by Butler attorney Alexander Lindsay on behalf of Weimann’s daughters, Tammi Kaufman and Kimberly Weimann, and Weimann’s wife, Karen Weimann, names nine state police troopers as defendants.
Kaufman said she obtained some of the new information filed in the amended complaint from documents she received from police through the discovery process including part of a video of the incident recorded by a state police helicopter that circled above the scene.
“I don’t want this to happen to someone else. If I knew what they would do, I wouldn’t have called,” Kaufman said Friday. “Watching the video was horrible. I saw him in his last moments of life. He looked confused. He deserved better than getting gunned down by police in his yard.”
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