Parents of an armed Black Lives Matter protester shot to death by police testified Monday that the loss of their son has left a void.

“There’s a hole inside you,” said Jeanne Llera, the mother of Jorge Gomez. “When you lose a kid, it’s like you’ve lost a part of your heart.”

A federal civil trial over the 2020 death of Gomez , who was 25 at the time, is coming to a close this week. The trial stems from a lawsuit filed by Gomez’s family against the officers who fired on him as well as the Metropolitan Police Department.

Clark County prosecutors decided not the prosecute the four officers who shot at Gomez: Ryan Fryman, Dan Emerton, Andrew Locher and Vernon Ferguson.

John Squeo, a detective who fired a beanbag shotgun at Gomez before the fatal shooting, is also named as a defendant in th

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