"I made it to the scene while they were still in the early stages, and they would not give me any information at all," Rebecca Duran said Wednesday.
Lewis, 20, and an expecting father, was shot and killed by Columbus Police officer Ricky Anderson, a 30-year veteran of the Columbus Police Department, last Tuesday. Police said they had arrived at Lewis' apartment located in the Columbus, Ohio, Hilltop neighborhood around 2 a.m. to arrest him on three separate charges -- improper handling of a firearm in a vehicle, assault and a domestic violence charge stemming from his girlfriend's call to police in August.
"There was no attempt to preserve his life, frisking him, handcuffed, flipping them around on the bed. I work in health care," Duran said. Duran, alongside her attorney Rex Elliott, who comforted her during the interview at times as she began to cry, say they plan to file a civil rights violation lawsuit against Anderson and the city of Columbus. Elliott claimed the excessive use of deadly force"wasn't called for."