Atlanta Adult Entertainment: Identity of officer who shot Dean Gaymon reported
Posted on July 26th, 2010 in Atlanta adult entertainment
Reports say Esposito shot DeFarra “Dean” Ivan Gaymon on July 16 in Branch Brook Park in Newark after the officer attempted to place Gaymon under arrest. ABCNews.com reported that the undercover officer was approached by Gaymon, who was “engaged in a sex act” alone, and when the officer displayed his badge and attempted to place him under arrest, the 48-year-old man “appeared to panic, assaulted the police officer and fled,” said Prosecutor Robert Laurino.
Gaymon, who was unarmed, allegedly pushed the officer to the ground and threatened to kill him, according to Laurino, citing the officer’s statement to investigators, then “lunged at and attempted to disarm the officer while reaching into his own pocket.”
It was then that the officer, alleged to be Esposito, “fearing for his life,” shot the man, who later died from a single gunshot wound to his abdomen. Gaymon was in New Jersey attending his 30th class reunion at Montclair High School.
Esposito, who was working undercover at the time, was patrolling the park with another officer as part of a sheriff’s detail to crackdown on public sex in the park. Gaymon was allegedly masturbating and soliciting sex when he approached the Detective.
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