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05:41 PM PDT on Monday, October 17, 2005
Sky 8
The scene of the shooting in Sandy.
SANDY -- A Clackamas County grand jury met Monday to decide if police were justified in fatally shooting a Gresham man last month.
Officers shot and killed Fouad Kaady when he was wandering, naked and unruly, on SE 362nd Ave. in Sandy in early September.
Several witnesses testified Monday and additional subpoenas were issued for other witnesses expected to testify on Tuesday.
A handful of protesters gathered outside courthouse during the proceedings.
“There must be an accountability of some sort to those that misused their position of authority to use it to take life when life should not have been taken,” Zania Kaady, Fouad Kaady's sister said.
On the day of last month's shooting, the officers received a report of a hit-and-run car accident and arrived to find Kaady naked. As police tried to get him under control, he became combative, they said.
The officers tried to taser him -- but were not able to get Kaady to calm down.
At one point Kaady got on top of the patrol vehicle, which is when at least one of the officers shot him.
Kaady died at the scene.
kgw.com File
Fouad Kaady in a photo from his family.
The sheriff's office identified the two officers who fired at Kaady as as 24-year-old William Bergin, a Sandy Police officer, and 44-year-old deputy David Willard of the Clackamas County Sheriffs Office.
Meantime, the grand jury, working behind closed doors, wasn't expected to make a decision on the Kaady case until Tuesday at the earliest. About a dozen protestors carried signs outside the Clackamas County court building Monday, calling for justice and criticizing police for shooting the naked, unarmed man.