County Sued for $1.5 Million in Deputies’ Slaying of Man

A Norwalk woman sued the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department on Wednesday for $1.5 million, claiming that deputies first fired taser guns into her home and then shot her husband to death as he ran out the door after a minor family dispute.

Patricia Susan Alvidrez said tensions between her and her husband, David, had already eased by the time deputies arrived at their home July 8, 1985, and she told them to leave.

However, the Superior Court suit said, the deputies fired a taser through the window (hitting her husband and their young daughter), then tackled her husband, hit him with batons when he reached for one of their revolvers, choked him and finally shot him to death.