HAYS — A Kansas police officer was justified in the fatal shooting of an autistic man who tried to wrestle away his gun, but the incident might have turned out differently if the officer had known about the man’s mental condition, an attorney for his family said.
Crafting a new law that would allow people with mental or physical disabilities to alert officers of their conditions before confrontations might help others avoid the pain Joseph “Joey” Weber’s loved ones are experiencing, Salina attorney Ken Wasserman said.