A police detective in Vallejo, California, has been fired after an investigation concluded that his use of deadly force in the shooting of a 22-year-old man in 2020 “was not objectively reasonable.”
, but an attorney with the family of the man who died, Sean Monterrosa, identified him as Jarrett Tonn, a detective with the department for more than six years.
Neither Tonn nor his attorney could immediately be reached for comment, and it was unclear whether he planned to challenge his firing in arbitration. A month after the shooting, police released officers' body camera footage. Three officers in the truck had activated their cameras, but none of the videos showed Monterrosa prior to Tonn firing his weapon through the front windshield. The vehicle itself did not have a camera.
But at a hearing in April, an outside consultant reviewing the case recommended that he not be fired.
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