Police Shot Man in Michael Finnegan Market

This morning, police shot a man named Edward Saldano inside the Michael Finnegan Market. Officers reportedly found a firearm in the market, and when they tried to approach Saldano, he ran. They shot him in the leg to stop him and took him to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital for treatment. Saldano is no stranger to trouble; he was wanted for escaping police custody back in November. Today, his run-in with the law ended with a gunshot wound. We spoke with his mother, Joyce Martinez, outside the hospital. She believes the police didn’t need to shoot her son.

 

Edward Saldano, Shooting Victim

“Deh handcuff me and shot up, deh bally done handcuff me and shot me.”

 

Joyce Martinez, Mother of Shooting Victim

“I really nuh know what happen, all I know the other day a shooting happened and they say he did the shooting. That is what I hear. I asked him if he wanted to go in. He said, what will I go in for when every minute as I go in they hold me. I understand that, because every time I carry my son they hold him, or sometimes I pay a lawyer to carry him in. But when you reach there it is a different story. My daughter called me and said they are walking around market to f**king find a gun. How will you know if that is his gun?”

 

Paul Lopez

“So he was in the vicinity?”

 

Joyce Martinez

“Look like he was at some stall and he see them and run apparently and they shot him. Then they look around to see if he had anything on him and they find a gun. So if you find a gun now dah fuh you? Yo nuh get no justice out yah, nun at all. If you nuh got money, nothing work. I tired of the police and deh nonsense and some of them call themselves GI3. Deh dah nuh GI3 deh dah BI f**king 3, deh act like woman.”

 

Paul Lopez

“Is it your view that in their attempt to detain your son they should not have shot him.”

Joyce Martinez

“Of course, detain him but why you have to shot him?”