7/7/2023 0 Comments Sam earman![]() Officer Lozada took “two or three” steps inside the bedroom. She stood from the bed and, standing with the canopy bed between her and officer Lozada, held the knife with the blade pointed down over her head. Teel was 60 years old, 5’2″ tall, and 120 pounds. She brought both hands from behind her back, revealing a kitchen knife with an eight-inch blade in her left hand. Officer Lozada announced himself and said in an assertive tone, “Susan, Sheriff’s Office. Officer Lozadadid not observe any blood on Mrs.Teel’s body. Teel would present a threat to anyone but herself. At this point, Officer Lozada testified, he still knew of no fact suggesting that Mrs. ![]() Teel’s hands were tucked behind her back. Officer Lozada paused for 2 to 3 seconds at the top of the stairs and then walked to the doorway of the bedroom. Teel was the doorway to the bedroom, a chest at the foot of the bed, and most of the bed, which had large round columns supporting the canopy. ![]() Teel in the next room, the master bedroom, wearing a bathrobe and lying quietly on a canopy bed with her feet dangling from it. When Officer Lozada reached a sitting room at the top of the stairs, he saw Mrs. As Officer Lozada advanced up the stairs, he drew his gun and held it to his chest. Teel to stay downstairs, and climbed the stairs toward the master bedroom. Officer Lozada then entered the home, told Dr. Teel, he had no objective facts indicating that she was a danger to anyone other than herself. Officer Lozada concedes that before encountering Mrs. Officer Lozada observed what he believed to be blood on Dr. Teel had unsuccessfully attempted to take away. Teel told Officer Lozada that his wife was upstairs, was trying to kill herself, was under the influence of narcotics and/or alcohol, and was armed with a knife that Dr. Teel walking down the stairs towards the door. When no one answered, he opened the front door, which was unlocked, and saw Dr. (Officer Earman would arrive minutes after Officer Lozada and hear gunshots from the threshold of the house.) Officer Lozada knocked on the front door. Officer Lozada, however, arrived first to the Teels’ home, and he did not wait for Officer Earman to arrive. Officer Samuel Earman, on patrol in the area, responded as the primary officer en route, and Officer Lozada, also on patrol at the time, responded that he would provide backup. Teel, an emergency medical doctor, testified that he discovered his wife in their master bedroom, where she had slit both of her wrists, “was bleeding out,” and needed to go to the hospital. Teel-who had “possibly cut herself,” was “under the influence of alcohol,” and had a knife. 2 The Indian River County Sheriff’s Office dispatch notified officers that a 911 call came through describing a person-later determined to be Mrs. The facts elicited during discovery are as follows. The facts of Teel, taken directly from the case, are as follows: Lozada, in which the court examined whether an officer was entitled to qualified immunity when he shot a woman that was armed with a knife, suicidal and walking slowly toward the officer. On September 23, 2020, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals decided Teel v.
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