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Family of Man Fatally Shot by Police in Barstow Walmart Parking Lot Says Gunfire Was Excessive

The scene of a fatal police shooting in a Barstow Walmart parking lot is taped off on April 5, 2018. (Credit: Victor Valley News Group)

At a Walmart parking lot in Barstow earlier this month, shoppers ducked for cover as police opened fire on a black man inside a car.

When the confrontation ended, Diante Yarber was dead in a fusillade of what some witnesses counted as 30 shots from officers.

Now, his family is saying the gunfire was excessive, and the case is generating national interest.

A grainy cellphone video captured the sound of the barrage of gunfire as police officers’ rounds pierced the black Ford Mustang being driven by the 26-year-old man. But the video does not show the full incident.

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