Jeronimo Yanez, who is Latino, on July 6, 2016, following a routine traffic stop.
(Courtesy of Castile Family)
Squad cam footage showed Yanez pulling over Castile’s car in Falcon Heights, Minn. Reports indicated that the initial stop was because another police officer radioed to Yanez and his partner that he believed the couple to be implicated in a robbery in the area and specified Castile due to his ‘wide-set nose.’
His girlfriend,
Yanez asked Castile for his identification and registration, which triggered a fatal sequence of events.
“Sir, I have to tell you, I do have a firearm on me,” Castile, who was licensed to carry in Minnesota, an open-carry state told Yanez.