Grand Jury Fails to Indict Cop Who Killed Inwood Man
March 19, 2012 9:03am | By Carla Zanoni, DNAinfo Social Media Editor
INWOOD — An undercover cop who shot and killed an Inwood man during an alleged drug bust will not face trial, a grand jury has ruled.
The decision left the family of John Collado, 43, a grandfather who lived at 26 Post Avenue, devastated.
Collado was shot and killed September when he tried to help a neighbor he thought was being attacked.
“You would think that the city’s presentation of this incident would have presented a fully formed view of all of these events that day,” Collado’s brother-in-law Joseph Wright told DNAinfo after the grand jury's decision Friday.
“This whole episode was caused by a reckless cop, no citizen should be in a situation where they have to decipher that some violent event is being orchestrated by an undercover cop.”
Although police say the undercover officer shot Collado in self-defense when he intervened in the arrest of his neighbor Rangel Batista, family members said the shooting is an example of the kind of police brutality they call all too common in Inwood.
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