Onondaga County Sheriff's Office deputies and investigators at the scene where a stolen car crashed on Mooney Avenue in Syracuse on Sept. 6, 2023. Two teens in the car died after they were shot by a deputy in a parking lot in DeWitt. The driver drove to Mooney Avenue where the car crashed and the driver fled. Dennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.com.
Syracuse, N.Y. — The mother of a teenager fatally shot by an Onondaga County sheriff’s deputy sued the county, the sheriff’s office and the deputy Thursday for alleged violations of federal civil rights and state laws.
In the federal lawsuit, Hawa Ayek accused sheriff’s Deputy John Rosello of excessive force, assault and battery that resulted in the wrongful death on Sept. 6 of her 17-year-old son, Dhal Apet.
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