Two days after Albuquerque police officer Jeremy Dear shot and killed 19-year-old Mary Hawkes, he and another officer used their mandated time off to visit Hooters and a massage parlor.
The day trip was part of the dangerous “bromance” that contributed to Hawkes’s death, her family says in a new lawsuit accusing the officers of egging each other on into violent behavior.
Dear shot and killed Hawkes in 2014 after he pulled her over for driving a car listed as stolen. During a foot chase through a trailer park, Dear said he saw Hawkes point a gun at him from close range.
He opened fire on the teenager, killing her on the spot. But Hawkes’s family and one of Dear’s former coworkers contest the details …