It was parents picking up their kids from the school across
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the street. They didn't want their kids to hear the potty-mouth rap coming from his garage.
Gregory Hill Jr. was drunk after spending the most of his day off from his job at Coca Cola listening to music in the “man cave” he had built in the garage of his Fort Pierce, Fla., home when two sheriff’s deputies showed up on Jan. 14, 2014.
Parents picking their children up at the elementary school across the street from Hill’s home had called in a noise complaint, concerned that their kids were overhearing the vulgar music the 30-year-old Hill had been playing.
By all accounts, Deputies Christopher Newsman and Edward Lopez first knocked on the door of the home, before knocking on the garage door itself. According to his family’s lawyers, Hill began to open the garage door, saw it was the police, and began to close it again when the deputies opened fire.
“They saw a black male holding a handgun at his right side,” St. Lucie County Sheriff Ken Mascara said in a statement the day after the incident. “Deputies ordered the male to drop the gun. Instead of complying … the male raised the gun toward the deputies as he simultaneously pulled the garage door closed.”
Deputy Lopez told investigators that he shouted “gun!” Deputy Newman told investigators that he too saw Hill “holding a handgun in his right hand.” Newman said in police documents that he then opened fire after Hill pointed the weapon at Lopez.
Newman fired four shots through the closing garage door — striking Hill in the head, abdomen and groin. Witnesses told police investigators that the entire interaction was over in a matter of seconds.