A former officer with the Fresno Police Department says he felt abandoned and mistreated by the city’s police chief and his staff after a fatal shooting that left him with a neck injury and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Former Officer Junus Perry is describing his ordeal for the first time since he left the department in 2010. It all began two years earlier when he was attacked by a mentally disturbed sophomore at Roosevelt High School. Perry ended up fatally shooting the 17-year-old special education student in self-defense. He later sued the Fresno Unified School District for negligence because it hadn’t warned him about the boy’s “psychological and emotional profile.”
The horrific incident left Perry with severe physical and emotional trauma, and he sought a medical discharge. But the request led to a fight with the department that dragged on and on, culminating in financial and emotional hardship.
Fresno PD and its staff say they cannot comment on the matter, but Chief Dyer did express surprise at Perry’s complaints, saying he had never heard them before. Perry says that isn’t true.