Family: shooting involving security guard unjustified

6:28 a.m. PST February 24, 2015

 

A Sacramento man remained in the hospital after being shot by a security guard. The man’s family was calling the shooting unjustified and demanding a full police investigation.

Sulman Hafeez has been in and out of surgery at Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Medical Center with damage to his kidney, pancreas and stomach.

The 33-year-old was recovering from a gunshot wound he sustained Sunday night outside a 7-Eleven on Mack Road and Center Parkway.

The man who pulled the trigger is a security guard with Cal Force Security.

“A security guard shot my nephew without probable cause, with excessive force,” said Khalid Mahmood, Hafeez’s uncle.

Hafeez’s relatives said the shooting was not justified, given that he was unarmed.

The events that led up to the shooting are not 100 percent clear. Hafeez told his family that he was intoxicated when he went to the 7-Eleven.

“From what we heard, he was just in there a long time and they told him to leave and he left,” said Kamron Anwar, Hafeez’s cousin.

Once outside, the family said Hafeez began urinating along the storefront. That’s when the unidentified security guard stepped in to restrain him.

But Hafeez resisted being handcuffed and the guard began to use force.

“He tased him twice, pepper sprayed him and shot him over urinating,” said Anwar. “He could have just called the real cops if it was that serious.”

The security guard told police he fired his gun because he feared for his life.

That’s a valid requirement for use of deadly force, according to the firearms training manual for the bureau of Security and Investigative Services under the Dept. of Consumer Affairs.

Under their guidelines, a “firearm may be used only when there is a clear and present danger to life and when other defensive methods are inappropriate or have failed.”

But Hafeez’s family didn’t think the security guard’s life was ever in any danger.

The shooting remains under investigation.

News 10 reached out to Cal Force Security but they refused to comment.

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