Gabriella Nevarez was a victim of police brutality. She was a 22-year-old woman who was fatally shot by the Sacramento police. 14 bullet holes on the car that Nevarez was driving and at the time police had not yet confirmed how many of those bullets entered her body. After further investigation it was reported that Nevarez was hit with four gunshots to her back, chest, thigh and scalp.

The police were on to Gabriella because of a phone call that they received from her grandmother. Gabriella and her grandmother were in a heated discussion and after this discussion she took her grandmothers car and that’s when her grandmother called the police. Citrus Heights Police said they received a call for a stolen vehicle and tracked the car.

Police said Nevarez evaded them by ramming one patrol car then speeding away at over 70 miles per hour, and occasionally traveling on the wrong side of the road. Police said they opened fire on Nevarez after she rammed another patrol car.

Gabriella Nevarez was murdered in 2014 and she has not received justice yet. The only actions taken by the Sacramento Police Department was at least to put 2 officers on admistrative leave. Please sign this petition and share it with all of your friends and family to get justice for Gabriella Nevares and her family. 

 

 

Words from her family

 

In an interview with Beasley, Gabriella’s grandmother, she said that, according to a witness account, her granddaughter reached back into the car on Sunset Avenue after getting out in an attempt to surrender.

 

She then went on to say “I don’t know if she was putting the car in park or getting something else. Well that’s when they started firing. They shot her, something like 17 times. “They said they thought she had a weapon. She didn’t have any weapon. She hated guns. She hated guns. She hated violence.”

 

Beesely said she had further reason to believe Nevarez was standing outside of the car in an attempt to surrender because she found no blood inside of the car and also said her granddaughter was bipolar and often had episodes where she went into a dark place, but that she was not a dangerous girl.

 

Beesley said she told police about her granddaughter’s mental illness, and that she thought she’d end up bringing the car home on her own. I think this is interesting to note because in the very FEW police cases on this incident that I have found they never bring up her mental illness and the state that she was in before the shooting. The first time that this was conveyed through the media was on account of her grandmother a year or two after the incident when she finally decided to speak up about it.