Saying their son is schizophrenic, the parents of a man shot by police on the Silver Comet Trail want the charges against him dropped, according to Channel 2 Action News.
Daron Holcombe, 26, of Rockmart, was shot March 1 by a Dallas police officer after he refused an order to drop what they thought was a rifle, officials said. Holcombe actually was holding a replica air rifle, according to the GBI.
Holcombe is charged with aggravated assault and has a bond hearing this month, according to the station. He was released from a hospital and is in jail while awaiting the hearing.
“They're trying to charge him with stuff that's not true,” said Holcombe’s mother, LaTosha Smith. “He's sick. He needs help.”
“He needs help,” said Franklin Boykins, Holcombe’s stepfather.
Capt. Bill Gorman of Dallas police said Holcombe is getting the treatment he needs in jail.
“As long as he takes his prescribed medicines,” Gorman said, “he does well.”
Of the shooting, Gorman said, “you couldn’t tell it was a pellet rifle.”
Boykins said Holcombe has been in and out of jail because of his illness. He said he warned a judge before the incident that something terrible was going to happen.
“I told them,” he said. “I dreamed it, I seen it and it happened.”
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