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Gun found by Lee’s body never was in police custody, city says

submitted by Max Sparber

Apr 8 2009 — 12:25pm

Update to earlier story, from Strib: The Russian-made gun found at the fatal police shooting of 19-year-old Fong Lee in 2004 was never in the police property room as claimed by Lee’s family in a federal lawsuit, the city of Minneapolis said today

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3 Reader Comments

MollyP Apr 8 2009
2:47 pm

So it took them more than a week to respond to the allegations. And yet the evidence suggests that, it doesn’t matter if they called it Her’s or not, a gun matching that serial # WAS in police custody.

Jack Pine Apr 9 2009
9:57 am

Police spokesman Jesse Garcia responded Wednesday that Vue is also listed throughout the police report as the “reporting party” — the person who called police to come retrieve the found weapon. Garcia said that was Vue’s only role in the matter and that the report erroneously listed him as the gun’s “owner” because the computer program in use at the time required that the “owner” blank be filled in on the form.

And we’re to believe that the operator wouldn’t key in “John Doe” or “Unknown” in the ‘owner’ field, as opposed to using the name of the citizen who called in the report? If so, that act of bureaucratic ineptitude itself ought to be grounds for a lawsuit….

Jack Pine Apr 10 2009
10:52 am

And more questions today, this time about irregular treatment of the patrol-car video and apparent gaps in same:

An expert witness hired by Fong Lee’s family said there was “blank time” on the tape that “raises the question of tampering.”

http://www.twincities.com/ci_12111096