Edmond D. Fair was fatally shot in the chest by police during a traffic stop and struggle in Brooklyn Center last week, authorities said Tuesday. The Hennepin County Sheriff's Office, which is investigating the shooting, said it couldn't comment on the case. Michael Padden, an attorney hired by Fair's girlfriend, said he had separate interviews with the four passengers in Fair's van. They told him that Fair was handcuffed when he was shot and that he wasn't resisting arrest, he said.
© Richard Sennott, Star Tribune This is the scene at the west bound ramp to 694 where there was an overnight fatal police officer involved shooting on Shingle Creek Pkwy in Brooklyn Center, Minn.
Fair, 24, died about 2:20 a.m. Friday after being shot in the chest during an encounter with police near Shingle Creek Parkway and the entrance ramp to Interstate 694, the Hennepin County medical examiner's office said.
© Richard Sennott This is the scene of a fatal police officer involved shooting on Shingle Creek Pkwy in Brooklyn Center, Minn.
The officer involved in the shooting - Ryan Soliday - was placed on paid administrative leave, which is standard procedure. Since being hired by the department in January 2010, Soliday has had no disciplinary action taken against him and has received five Chief's Certificates of Commendations and a Merit of Achievement award.
Elizabeth Fair, Edmond's mother, said Tuesday that she's upset that no police official notified her about her son's death. She learned about it from a relative who was a passenger in Fair's van at the time of the shooting.
"Somebody took away my son," she said. "They took something you can't get back, and that's not right."
Kelia Gregory dated Edmond four months after having met him at church in 2007. She described him as a wonderful person who loved playing with their new kitten and pit bull, and he treated her seven children like his own.
"I'm in a lot of grief right now," she said.
Fair, of Minneapolis, was driving Gregory's van the night he was killed.
Padden plans to file suit Wednesday in an attempt to get her van back from police custody. The vehicle has no relevance in the shooting investigation, Gregory told him, because all four passengers heard officers say "van all clear" after they searched it for contraband.
To prove his case, Padden interviewed all the passengers separately and recapped their accounts in the lawsuit to come, he said.
But on Tuesday, he was told by a representative of the Sheriff's Office that authorities have now found a narcotic and weapon in the van and will not release it.
After the shooting, all the passengers were arrested and interviewed by deputies, Padden said. They were asked questions about the shooting, but nothing about contraband in the van, he said. They were held in jail for nine hours.
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