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James Matthew Boyd was fatally shot by Albuquerque Police Department officers Keith Sandy and Dominique Perez on the evening of March 16, 2014, in the foothills of the Sandia Mountains near Albuquerque, New Mexico. A resident of a nearby subdivision called police at 3:28 p.m. to report that a man had been camping in the mountains behind his house for the past month. Two Open Space officers were the first to respond. They approached Boyd as he lay under a tarp or cover; he became irate and produced a knife.〔 〕〔 〕 After a five-hour standoff, Boyd was shot with a rifle as he was turning away from officers,〔 and was then fired on with a beanbag shotgun. He died early the next morning at the University of New Mexico Hospital of massive trauma after surgeons amputated an arm and removed part of a lung and his spleen in an effort to save his life. The two police officers are charged with second-degree murder in his death. ==Background== James Matthew "Abba" Boyd, 38, was homeless and police say he suffered from schizophrenia.〔 〕 He had served time in the Bernalillo County Jail in Albuquerque and the Doña Ana County Jail in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He had also been transported to a mental health hospital at the University of New Mexico.〔(Man killed in foothills had long criminal past ), KOAT-TV〕 The last lawyer to represent James Boyd, John McCall, says he had no doubt that his client was mentally ill. However, he said, the state mental hospital in Las Vegas determined that he was not dangerous, and also that there was no treatment that would render him competent to stand trial, and therefore they released him.. McCall said Boyd was creative but clearly delusional.〔http://www.abqjournal.com/376262/news/james-boyds-dark-journey.html〕 A cousin who remembers him fondly from visits to an aunt's farm that let them both escape their families for a while describes him as funny, sensitive and intelligent〔 Boyd's childhood slipped away from an alcoholic mother and an physically abusive father, into sexually abusive foster homes, by the time he was five. This greased the slope for his entry to the juvenile justice system at fifteen, where he remained for two years. He had barely turned 18 when he was arrested again, Those charges were eventually dropped, but by then he had already tried to escape and spit jalapeño at a jailer's eyes. By the time his family got him a lawyer for the new charges he had already pled guilty and was waiting to be sentenced,〔 Boyd knew by then that he was mentally ill and asked at his mental health evaluation for probation, counseling and job training. But he was considered competent to stand trial and instead was sentenced to ten and a half years in jail, and all his appeals were denied. Todd Holmes, the Alamagordo lawyer who tried to prevent this, found himself defending Boyd again in 2001, when Boyd was arrested trying to get onto Holloman Air Force base, claiming was on a mission from Gerald Ford that involved national security. Boyd's mental deterioration in prison was evident to Holmes, and he says that it was after his release that Boyd began to identify as Abba Mobus Abadon, derived from God and the Hebrew word for a bottomless pit.〔 In January 2002 Boyd was arrested breaking into the Las Cruces offices of the FBI,〔 〕 and in 2005 for assault in downtown Albuquerque's Civic Plaza for telling a man "I am God and I want to hurt you."〔http://www.koat.com/news/10-years-of-james-boyd-a-look-into-his-turbulent-final-decade/26424790〕 Charges were dropped four months later. He was arrested again in 2007 for refusing to leave a fire station. He told firefighters he was a government agent and wanted to send them to hell. On arriving at the jail, he punched a corrections officer.〔 In 2009 he got into a fight at a homeless shelter and cut another man with a box cutter.〔 In 2010 staffers at the downtown library called police because Boyd was telling people he was God and frightening them. He broke the nose of the police officer who responded.〔 At 1am on February 27, 2014. Alexander Thickstun, who lived at the base of the foothills below Boyd's campsite, heard his dogs barking "hysterically" in his backyard and went out to retrieve them. When he did, he heard yelling coming from the mountain above him. The neighbor testified he heard "Boyd yelling irrational things at another man in the middle of the night", including threats against the other man. The neighbor called police, but while they drove down his street, he did not think they went up to the campsite to investigate, he told a police dispatcher and an internal affair investigator on the night of the shooting.〔 〕 Thickstun said he was "terrified".〔http://www.abqjournal.com/624169/news/defense-expert-says-no-evidence-boyd-was-surrendering.html〕 The prosecutor, referring to that night, asked the neighbor why he didn't call the city's 311 line that night to try to offer help to Boyd, but instead called 911. "I feared for my safety so I did not want to just call 311 to donate something to him,", Thickstun said. "I don't want () around my family; I don't want () around my house."〔http://www.krqe.com/2015/08/06/defense-expert-deadly-force-in-james-boyd-case/reasonable/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shooting of James Boyd」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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