Moments before Sgt. Shane Iversen fatally shot Timothy Michael Randall in Rusk County, Texas, in 2022.
As Randall was stepping out of the car, he put his wallet in his back pocket and adjusted his waistband.
Randall began to turn to run away from Iversen, who had already pulled out his gun and was pointing it at Randall.
After another deputy arrived minutes later, Iversen, then 57, returned to his patrol car and phoned a colleague.
In the following days and weeks, Randall’s mother searched for answers in vain, calling the Texas Rangers and the Rusk County district attorney’s office.
“No one was telling us anything,” said Tippitt, who was born and raised in Rusk County and now cleans houses for a living.
Two days after the killing, Iversen sat for an interview with the Texas Rangers, the agency that investigates police shootings. »