Missing You at Christmas

Zac and Carol, Christmas 2005

Christmas with Zac 2009

Christmas with Zac and cousin Claire, 2005

Christmas with Zac and cousin Olivia, 2008

We miss you, Zac. 

Six Months

This Friday, Christmas Eve, will mark the six-month anniversary of Zac's senseless killing. It will also mark our first Christmas without Zac.

We will remember him and observe the anniversary of his death with a special holiday vigil on Christmas Eve, Friday, December 24th, at 5:30 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. on the southeast corner of Zelzah and Chatsworth in Granada Hills.

Please join us as we stop to take a moment to remember Zac Champommier and the wonderful person he grew up to be (thanks to Carol). Let's take the opportunity to be together, as his extended family, and once again pledge ourselves to seeking justice for Zac.

If you knew Zac, or if you're just now meeting Zac and learning about his story... all are welcome to join us.

Merry Christmas.

More truths

From text accompanying this video elsewhere:

Here is a great example of an activist attorney who does what is required to bring the issues into public view where they can be debated and opinions can be formed. In this broadcast, a former police officer discusses how it is against NYPD policy to shoot at a moving vehicle unless the driver presents some other threat (e.g., a gun, bomb, etc.). This must be national policy as it relates to the car-as-deadly-weapon scenario. It must be one of the goals we strive to achieve. The video also includes images of Doug Zerby who was killed last week by police who, as in Zac's case, failed to announce their presence. They, as in case, came to the worst conclusion possible. The police concluded that the water hose nozzle Doug held was a gun. They apparently gave no warning before they shot. Doug apparently didn't even know they were there.

So, we unfortunately have to welcome Doug's family and friends. We all knew the day would come, as it will surely come again.

I hope the writer who penned this is wrong; unfortunately, s/he'll most likely be proven right sooner rather than later.

Five Months

It's been more than five months since Zac's killing and the Sheriff's report on Zac's case is now in the hands of the District Attorney's office which is reviewing it for "penal code infractions."

What you should also know is that the Sheriff's Department recently made the following statements to Zac's mother:

• The shot that killed Zac was fired by a DEA agent.
• Law enforcement officers were indeed debriefing in the public parking lot after serving a warrant elsewhere.
• The deputies were NOT in uniform, NOT in any marked law enforcement vehicles and did NOT identify themselves to Zac; he probably never knew they were officers.
• Zac broke no laws; he did nothing wrong.

 I think the last one is kind of big: the Sheriff's Department has confirmed ZAC BROKE NO LAWS. HE DID NOTHING WRONG.  ALSO - NO CHARGES WERE FILED AGAINST THE MAN DEPUTIES HAD DETAINED MOMENTS BEFORE ZAC WAS KILLED.

I think that's as close to a public retraction we're going to get from Baca regarding his statement that Zac bore some measure of fault in his own killing by "striking an officer." 

"He did nothing wrong." - straight from the horse's mouth. 

Christmas Eve will note the six month anniversary of Zac's death.