Family Of Ashton Pinke, Who Was Killed By Mesquite Police, Say He Struggled With Mental Health

CBS Dallas/Fort Worth

May 5, 2021

The family of Ashton Pinke huddled together Tuesday, May 4, comforting a relative who’d collapsed with loud sobs outside the Audobon Park Apartments in Mesquite.

News of his death following an encounter with police was spreading quickly.

“There was a lady screaming and there was a guy laying on the ground and the paramedics looked like they were trying to resuscitate him,” recalled Rico Bell, a neighbor who witnessed the immediate aftermath of the shooting. One neighbor captured video of the loud, repeated screams uttered by Pinke’s girlfriend.

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