Laudemer Arboleda, a 33 year old Filipino-American man, had been living in Newark, CA with his family. He was fatally shot by a Danville Police Officer, Andrew Hall, on November 3rd 2018, after a slow speed chase along meandering suburban streets. He had a history of mental health struggles and was likely looking for a property manager’s office when he came to Danville that fateful day. A resident had reported a suspicious person to the police and they responded to it as a routine call. Laudemer, perhaps due to his increasing paranoia, refused to stop. Since he had committed no crime, the primary responding officers were about the call off the pursuit when it was proving to be too much effort with too little basis for a police response. That is when Andrew Hall came barreling around the corner, nearly hitting Laudemer’s car head-on.
He was not authorized to create a blockade, nor was he even supposed to respond at all without authorization. Hall exited his vehicle, ran around the back of his own car to a gap between two police cars where Laudemer was trying to maneuver through, and he fired ten rounds into Laudemer’s car, striking him nine times.
Laudemer should still be alive today. Being a person of color with a mental illness should not be a risk factor for dying at the hands of police. Laudemer’s family struggled to get him adequate care. In addition to demanding that Andrew Hall never work in law enforcement again, they want to see more resources made available for families like theirs who struggled to get support for a loved one with mental illness.
Laudemer was one of three siblings raised by a single mother who had emigrated from the Philippines. As a small child, Laudemer contracted meningitis which lead to a lengthy hospitalization and he was even momentarily declared dead. This traumatic childhood experience possibly contributed to his mental illness later in life. The whole while, Laudemer’s family worked hard to get him adequate, affordable, care, often encountering dead ends. In addition to demanding that Andrew Hall never work in law enforcement again, they want to see more resources made available for families like theirs who struggle to get support for a loved one living with mental illness. Conscious Contra Costa
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2022-07-08 Danville sets 10-year record for sheriff’s office liability costs Danville ranks at the top of liability costs among the other two cities that contract with the county sheriff’s office for police services, following two costly and high-profile cases brought after former Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputy Andrew Hall’s shooting deaths of two men in the town. The total of $9,527,081 in costs for Danville in the 2021-22 fiscal year brought its 10-year total for liability costs to $10,667,351, according to data reviewed by the Board of Supervisors in a report presented at its June 21 meeting. The more than $9 million in liability costs in Danville in the current fiscal year also accounted for a majority of the $11,091,899 in costs for all three incorporations that contract for police services with the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office over the past decade. Lafayette and Orinda, the other two cities, had costs amounting to $410,629 and $13,919 respectively over the past 10 years.
Contra Costa County has agreed to pay $4.5 million to the family of a mentally ill homeless man who was killed by a sheriff’s deputy in a 30-second confrontation. The lawsuit settlement, reported Thursday by the Bay Area News Group, involves the March 2021 shooting of Tyrell Wilson in the East Bay community of Danville. Wilson refused to drop a knife he was holding but didn’t approach the deputy before he was shot in the face, according to body camera footage released by the Sheriff’s Department.
The deputy, Andrew Hall, also shot and killed another mentally ill man in 2018 during a slow-speed car chase in Danville. Hall had stood in front of the vehicle and fired 10 shots through the windshield and passenger side window. Hall told investigators he was afraid Laudemer Arboleda, 33, would run him down. Arboleda was unarmed. Last fall, Contra Costa County agreed to pay $4.9 million to settle a federal lawsuit filed by Arboleda’s family.
2022-03-04 Deputy sentenced to 6 years for shooting Laudemer Arboleda A Contra Costa Sheriff’s deputy was sentenced Friday to serve six years in state prison for fatally shooting Laudemer Arboleda in downtown Danville. Deputy Andrew Hall was convicted by a jury of assault with a firearm and inflicting great bodily injury for shooting Arboleda nine times on November 3, 2018.
2022-03-04 Hall Sentencing: Andrew Hall Sentenced To Prison For Fatal OIS Slaying Of Laudemer Arboleda Former Danville Police Officer Andrew Hall was sentenced Friday to six years in prison for the shooting death of Laudemer Arboleda.
2021-11-00 Guilty Verdict In Case Of Danville Deputy Accused Of Killing Laudemer Arboleda Killing
2021-11-03 Laudemer Arboleda’s Family Marks 3rd Anniversary of Fatal Danville Officer-Involved Shooting KRON4 DANVILLE (KPIX) — Gathered in front of the Danville Public Library, a group of mothers, members of an unfortunate sorority of women who lost their sons in police shootings, came to mark the three-year anniversary of Laudemer Arboleda’s death.
2021-10-27 California deputy convicted of firearm assault in death of mentally ill man shot 9 times However, the jury deadlocked on another and more serious count of voluntary manslaughter in the death of 33-year-old Laudemer Arboleda.
2021-10-27 Contra Costa County To Pay $4.9M Settlement In Police Killing Of Laudemer Arboleda MARTINEZ (CBS SF) — Contra Costa County will pay $4.9 million to the family of Laudemer Arboleda, the Newark man killed by former Danville police officer Andrew Hall in 2018.
County spokesperson Susan Shiu said Wednesday a settlement has been reached, but hasn’t been signed yet by both parties. Family attorney Adante Pointer said “I expect my client to sign it within the next few days, or whenever (Arboleda’s mother Jeannie Atienza) is ready to deal with it. This process has taken a heavy toll on the mother and the family as a whole.”
Hall was convicted of assault with a firearm in Contra Costa County Superior Court in Martinez on Tuesday for shooting Arboleda. The jury couldn’t reach a decision on the related manslaughter charge.
On Nov. 3, 2018, Arboleda led Danville police on a slow-speed pursuit after someone called the police in response to the Newark man knocking on their door. Arboleda pulled over multiple times, only to drive away from police. At one point, officers drew their guns without shooting as Arboleda drove away.
2021-10-26 Raw Video: Attorney for Laudemer Arboleda Family Remarks After Andrew Hall Verdict A mistrial was declared in the manslaughter trial of Andrew Hall, a Danville police officer and Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputy accused in the 2018 shooting death three years ago of Laudemer Arboleda.
2021-10-26 Guilty Verdict In Case Of Danville Deputy Accused Of Killing Laudemer Arboleda Killing A mistrial was declared in the manslaughter trial of Andrew Hall, a Danville police officer and Contra Costa County sheriff’s deputy accused in the 2018 shooting death three years ago of Laudemer Arboleda.
2021-10-21 Laudemer Arboleda Fatal Shooting: Danville Officer Andrew Hall Trial Heads To Closing Arguments MARTINEZ (CBS SF/BCN) — Prosecutors said Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Deputy Andrew Hall wasn’t acting in self-defense when he shot Laudemer Arboleda nine times on Nov. 3, 2018, while Hall’s lawyers said during closing arguments Thursday that Hall had no choice.
Judge Terri Mockler gave the jury its final instructions before recessing court until Monday. Thursday’s session painted two very different versions of what happened nearly three years ago, after Laudemer led police on a slow-speed pursuit through Danville that began over a “suspicious person” report and ended with Hall shooting the 33-year-old as he tried to drive away between police vehicles.
Danville contracts with the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Department for police services. Hall faces charges of voluntary manslaughter and assault with a firearm, both felonies. He pleaded not guilty in June and is currently on paid administrative leave.
A sheriff’s investigation after the 2018 incident cleared Hall of any wrongdoing in Arboleda’s death. The district attorney announced it was pressing charges in the 2018 case after Hall was involved in a second fatal shooting in Danville earlier this year. On March 11, Hall responded to reports of a man throwing rocks onto Interstate Highway 680 from the Sycamore Valley Road and shot 32-year-old transient Tyrell Wilson who approached him with a folding knife.
The families of the deceased in both incidents said the men suffered from mental health issues.
On Thursday, much of the debate between sides was over what Hall knew when he entered the situation, with Arboleda stopped with two police units behind him at the corner of Front Street and Diablo Road.
2021-05-20 Justice delayed? In wealthy California town, officer kills 2 Just past the Village Theatre and a quaint corner chocolate shop is the intersection where Officer Andrew Hall shot and killed a 33-year-old mentally ill man in 2018. History repeated itself this spring, when Hall fired his gun and killed another 33-year-old mentally ill man on the streets of this wealthy San Francisco suburb.
The Town of Danville is not accustomed to gun violence. This well-manicured place of multimillion-dollar homes regularly tops lists of the safest and wealthiest places to live in California. The two fatal shootings by the same officer in a 2 1/2-year span have now cast a spotlight on Danville, where criminal justice activists say the wheels of justice turned far too slowly and had deadly consequences.
Many of the questions residents are posing at Danville town council meetings and in emotionally charged neighborhood conversations echo those America is asking of policing nationwide. Was the officer’s use of deadly force justified or excessive?
2021-04-22 California Officer, on Leave After One Shooting, Is Charged in Another, From 2018
2021-04-21 KQED -Video Footage of Tyrell Wilson Killing Released – as Same Danville Officer Charged in Another Death Only a day after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd, the East Bay town of Danville is facing its own reckoning over two police killings.
Andrew Hall, a police officer in Danville, which contracts law enforcement services from the Contra Costa County Sheriff, has been charged with felony voluntary manslaughter and felony assault with a semi-automatic firearm in the 2018 killing of Laudemer Arboleda, the Contra Costa District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday.
Hall’s shooting of Arboleda was “without lawful excuse or justification,” the District Attorney’s Office said in a statement. If found guilty, Hall faces a possible 22-year prison sentence and would be barred from being a peace officer. “Ultimately, I’m confident a jury of officer Hall’s peers will review this case … and ultimately hold officer Hall accountable,” District Attorney Diana Becton said at a press conference Wednesday. “The unnecessary death of Mister Arboleda underscores the need for law enforcement personnel to better understand those who are suffering from mental illness.”
Just hours before the DA’s charging announcement, the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office released grisly, graphic video footage of the incident Burris was referring to: Hall shooting 32-year-old Tyrell Wilson, a homeless man whose family says suffered from schizophrenia, on March 11 of this year.
2019-12-06 Laudemer Arboleda: Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office release deputy-involved shooting video
2019-12-06 Video of Fatal Danville Police Shooting Shows Officer Firing at Slow-Moving Vehicle Newly released video of a fatal police shooting last year in Danville shows an officer run toward and then fire into the vehicle of a man who had fled police and was steering toward a gap between two squad cars.
In a package of pre-produced video and audio segments released Thursday by the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office, which polices Danville under contract, a spokesman said the Nov. 3, 2018, shooting “occurred as a result of a suspect trying to run down an officer.” Sheriff David Livingston said earlier this year that the shooting “is about a dangerous and reckless person trying to run down and murder a police officer.”
Videos and other information on the case were obtained in response to a public records request filed by the California Reporting Project, a coalition of news organizations seeking records from law enforcement agencies under a new state transparency law.
Police car dashboard-camera video shows a Danville officer, identified as Deputy Andrew Hall, running toward Laudemer Arboleda’s vehicle, stopping near the right front fender and then stepping backward as he began to fire.
Two police cars had nearly boxed Arboleda in, but there was a small gap between them. Body-camera video shows Hall drawing his gun as he ran toward that opening while Arboleda steered to the right, also toward the space between the patrol cars. Hall can be seen firing several rounds through the right front windshield and continuing to shoot as Arboleda drove by, shattering the front and rear passenger windows.
Civil rights attorney John Burris, who represents Arboleda’s mother in a federal lawsuit against Danville and Hall, said “the claim that he was about to be run over is bogus, given what we can see.”
“The officer did not have to shoot into that car,” Burris said. “The car was going past him at the time, and more importantly, he had a duty to get out of the way.”
Police were responding to a call just after 11 a.m., in which a man whose identity has been withheld reported a “strange individual lurking around” property near Cottage Lane and Laurel Drive, according to audio of the call released by the Sheriff’s Office along with the videos. Officers tried to pull over Arboleda, who stopped twice but then took off again when officers got out of their cars, according to previous statements on the shooting released by the Sheriff’s Office. Police then cornered Arboleda’s car at the intersection of Front Street and Diablo Road, where the shooting occurred.
The police dash-camera video was played at a coroner’s inquest in July, according to an attorney representing Arboleda’s mother, but footage from Hall’s body camera had not been made public before Thursday. The inquest jury found that Arboleda’s death was caused by another person and was not accidental.
Arboleda’s family said two weeks after the shooting that he had struggled with mental illness for about a year, but declined to explain further. He had been detained by Newark police for psychiatric evaluation in April 2018, according to the Sheriff’s Office. The shooting remains under investigation by the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office. Nate Gartrell and Annie Sciacca of the Bay Area News Group contributed to this report.
2019-07-31 Danville: Jury reaches verdict in coroner’s inquest on officer-involved shooting
A Contra Costa County jury determined in a coroner’s inquest Tuesday that a Newark man who was shot and killed by a Danville police officer in November died at the hands of another person, other than by accident. That verdict was one of four specific options jurors had to choose from in the public hearing called to determine the manner of 33-year-old Laudemer Arboleda’s death — the others were accident, suicide or natural causes.
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