Lawsuit to Allege Evanston Police Let Shooting Victim Die

The father of a gunshot victim plans to file a lawsuit in U.S. District Court within the next few weeks alleging that Evanston police were negligent in getting medical assistance for his son when the 23-year-old was bleeding from gunshot in December 2012, Evanston Review reported. 

With the assistance of Living & Driving While Black, a civil rights organization, John Bamberg, father of the victim, Javar Bamberg, plans to file the suit to contend that despite an immediate call to 911 explaining the situation, the city dispatched police and not paramedics to the scene —the suit, however, contradicts the police account of the incident, Evanston Review Reported. 

Evanston police say Javar’s death is related a feud between two extended families with gang ties. 

and found Javar lying in the alleyway, according to a press release from the Evanston Police Department. Bamberg was shot in the head died at the scene, police said.  

Davild L. Lowery, Jr., founder and CEO of the organization, told Evanston Review he questions whether police took the case nonchalantly because Javar’s name appeared in several open cases police were investigating at the time, stemming from a feud. 

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