Diante Yarber, 26

Barstow, California
April 05, 2018

Agencies: San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department California

Cause of death: Shooting


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Last updated: almost 6 years ago

Overview

The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department are investigating a fatal officer involved shooting after the suspect allegedly rammed two Barstow patrol units in a Walmart parking lot Thursday morning.

At 10:53 am, Barstow Police Officers we’re called to the Walmart parking lot in the 300 block of Montara Road for a suspicious vehicle.

According to Sheriff’s Spokeswoman Cindy Bachman, when deputies arrived on scene, they located a black Ford Mustang driven by a subject that they recognized as a suspect that was wanted for a recent crime.

Diante “Butchie” Yarber, a 26-year-old father of three, was driving his cousin and friends to a local Walmart store in Barstow, California, two hours outside of Los Angeles, on April 5. In broad daylight, police officers fired what sounded like 30 quick, consecutive shots into Yarber’s packed car, killing him and injuring a woman in the vehicle, The Guardian reported. Within seconds, his life was cut short in another law enforcement-involved shooting that raised more outrage about what activists have said is the disregard of Black lives.

His life mattered, and it was taken away in a barrage of bullets.

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