“I kept telling them that he can’t hear them. I kept telling them he can’t understand them.” These are the words of 25-year-old Edward Miller. He was speaking about his father, also named Edward Miller, 52. He was deaf and Joel Hernandez and another plainclothes police officer for Volusia County didn’t know that when they responded to a disturbance at a Daytona Beach towing company and shot him to death.
Officers claim that Miller was brandishing a weapon when they shot him six times inside of his vehicle. They responded to reports from scared employees of the store about a man being loud outside. Miller’s son claims that his father only had 2% of his hearing and was dealing with a faulty hearing aid at the time. He says his father was no threat to anyone. He said his father “may have been yelling due to him being hard of hearing, [but] in no way was he trying to be rude.”
Hernandez, 35, has been with the Volusia County police for a decade and has been on their SWAT team for seven years. The deputy is no stranger t0 “getting busy” in the street. He was involved in a fatal shooting last year, however, he was cleared of all wrongdoing in that incident.
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