One of the sisters’ high school teachers was trying to crowd-source funds from the community to help cover therapy costs. The sisters said their mom was exhausted after her son’s death but could only take a few days off work to grieve, because of the pressure to keep paying bills. Michelle and Ashley Monterrosa, whose brother Sean, 22, was shot in June by an officer in Vallejo, California, recently told me they also used the fundraising website to pay for his funeral. In other states, families who lost loved ones during police shootings have tried similar strategies. By Sunday evening, she had gotten about $38,000 through GoFundMe. Green is now trying to raise $50,000 for her son’s burial expenses.
Police say two firearms were later recovered from the vehicle. But a lawyer for Green argues it was not stolen-it belonged to Crooms’ girlfriend. The deputies later claimed they wanted to pull the driver over because they suspected the car was stolen. Green says that from where she stood, their car did not appear to be heading toward the officer. Deputy Jafet Santiago-Miranda fired his gun multiple times, killing Pierce and 16-year-old Angelo Crooms. “Please, don’t shoot! Please, don’t shoot! My baby’s in that car!” Green recalled screaming, according to a New York Times report.
But he backed out of the parking space and started driving toward one of them, the officers say. The deputies got out of their cruisers and ordered the driver to stop, according to dash-cam video. She got into her car and started following the deputies, afraid they might harass her son and his friends.Ī few minutes later, she watched as her son’s car pulled into a driveway of a residential house. Green, who is Pierce’s great-aunt and legal guardian, was leaving the house at the same time, and noticed a couple of sheriff’s deputies drive by. on November 13, and got into a car with some friends. Green’s son, Sincere Pierce, left their home in Cocoa around 10:30 a.m. The same day Green sold corn fritters to pay for her son’s burial, Kyle Rittenhouse finished amassing $2 million in donations. Many state governments offer financial assistance to the victims of violent crimes, but victims of police violence don’t qualify. And that’s not unusual: Families often struggle to gather enough money for expenses after police shootings. Green couldn’t afford the funeral costs on her own. On Friday, Cynthia Green stood outside a grassy field at a folding table, selling french fries, corn fritters, and rib sandwiches to try and raise enough money to bury her 18-year-old son, who had been shot dead by a sheriff’s deputy in Cocoa, Florida, one week earlier.
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