CCW holder killed Costco by police - Family puts up billboards looking for witnesses [View All]

Las Vegas, NV- The family of Erik Scott has begun a campaign to try and find out what really happened that Saturday afternoon when he was shot and killed by Metro officers.

"To hear the initial reports of what he was doing that day and what prompted Metro to shoot and kill him, it just doesn't make sense," said Anthony Bonifazio, a family friend.

Seven electronic billboards have gone up around Las Vegas asking for witnesses to come forward in the Costco shooting of Erik Scott.

"A forum or people to just be able to call anonymously and say, listen I was there and this is what I saw that day," asked Bonifazio of the public.

Metro is not saying much about the billboards, or the shooting, except for what was said in previous interviews with Action News.

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It's been two weeks since three Las Vegas Metro cops shot and killed 38-year-old West Point graduate Erik Scott as he exited a Costco store in the upscale area of Summerlin on July 10.

So far, the incident has generated more questions than answers.

If officials lock up the evidence so you can't get the answers, print the questions.

Erik Scott had a permit; he could legally carry a firearm either open or concealed. It's a right. Mr. Scott was under no obligation to demonstrate a "need" to carry his firearms to the store (as some letter-writers have suggested), any more than you must demonstrate a "need" to go to church more than once a week.

Nor do I agree with those who would say, if police shot up a luncheon meeting of the Jaycees or the Rotary Club, that "Cops are getting edgy in this town; people are just going to have to be more cautious about how they exercise their right to assemble."

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