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On Sunday September 14, 2014 at about 4:20 a.m., Rick and Julie Perez got a knock at the door. A Richmond, Calif. detective and an inspector with the Contra Costa County District Attorney wanted to ask them questions about their 24-year old son Pedie Perez.
"I don't know how to say this," the inspector said.
"You guys shot him?" Rick Perez asked.
"Yes."
"And he's not alive?"
"Yes, he's not alive," the inspector answered.
In episode three of On Our Watch from NPR and KQED, host Sukey Lewis examines the records that were unsealed by this transparency law to piece together what exactly happened when Pedie Perez was shot and killed outside a liquor store by a police officer.
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This podcast is produced as part of the California Reporting Project, a coalition of news organizations in California.
