The deputies fired 50 point-blank shots, and when it was all over, the deafening roar was replaced by Beeson’s shrill scream, as seen in the video.

“In utter shock, Beeson’s plaintiff dove back screaming in terror as the deputies’ bullets hit the car, narrowly missing her,” the lawsuit says.

Now, two years after a confrontation on May 7, 2021 with officials from the York County Sheriff’s Office, the mother and son are suing York County and the department for unspecified damages.

“There was a bullet that hit him in the middle of the back of the head,” Mullinax’s lawyer Justin Bamberg said Tuesday at a press conference attended by Beeson. “Never seen anyone get shot in the back of the head if he poses a threat to law enforcement or anyone else.”

Beeson said that she had always supported law enforcement, but the fact that her son was shot shook her faith in the police.

“Just because they’re law enforcement, they didn’t give them the right to do what they did,” Beeson said. “And, you know, I want to be able to have faith in law enforcement and regain my faith that they won’t hurt you.”

NBC News has reached out to York County authorities for comment. So far they have not responded.

Mullinax, 29, lives in Rock Hill, South Carolina, records show. The same records also indicate that he was arrested for breaking and entering and burglary, as well as petty domestic violence. His mother is 48 and also lives in Rock Hill.

In court papers filed May 5 in a local civil claims court, Mullinax does not deny that he was unwell before the deputies arrived and the bullets began to fly. He says he was sitting in his pickup truck parked on his family’s property and his mother tried to console him.

“Trevor was just in a very dark place” Bamberg said, who is also a member of the Democratic House of Representatives. “And he contemplated suicide.”

According to Bamberg, a few days before he was shot, Mullinax had “problems with this girl” and kicked the door of her house.

“This led to him being charged with burglary, he didn’t steal anything,” Bamberg said. “It’s not that this charge was actually dropped because it was nonsense.

When the deputies arrived According to the complaint, Mullinax had a shotgun in the truck, but “in no way did he point the weapon at himself” or anyone else.

Meanwhile, a friend or family member called the sheriff’s department asking for a “health check” on Mullinax, the complaint said.

The dispatchers were given the mobile phone numbers of Mullinax and his mother.

Instead of calling numbers, a group of helpers went to the property, and when they got there, Mullinax’s grandfather directed them to the back of the house, where his grandson parked and talked to his mother, the documents say.

“Before arriving at the property where Plaintiff Mullinax was still sitting in his pickup truck, the deputies drew their firearms and were ready to shoot Plaintiff Mullinax and use lethal force before they made verbal contact with him,” court documents say. . .

When they got there, the video shows that they started firing almost immediately.

Mullinax raised his hands and carried out the orders of the deputies, his lawyers insisted.

“At no time before, during, or after the deputies started shooting, did Plaintiff Mullinax raise, aim, or otherwise move the weapon in a manner that would allow the deputies to use deadly force,” the complaint states.

Despite this, the documents state that “Deputies arrested and charged Plaintiff Mullinax with pointing and presenting a firearm to police officers, which did not happen and is not true.”

The charges, according to the complaint, were brought to “cover up” the “absolutely excessive use of lethal force displayed by the deputies.”

According to his lawyers, Mullinax was hit nine times, including once in the back of the head.

Beeson, despite being right next to the pickup truck, was not hit by the gunshots.

There is no evidence that Mullinax or his mother “committed a crime or attempted to interfere with the arrival of a police officer, intervene or resist arrest,” the complaint says. “On the contrary, all available evidence indicated that the plaintiff attempted to comply within an extremely short period of time immediately after the arrival of the officers.”

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