Dallas police officer Christopher Hess, a 10-year veteran of the department, has been indicted by a grand jury on an aggravated assault charge after firing into a moving vehicle and killing 21-year-old Genevive Dawes.

Mary Dawes, Genevive’s mother, filed the federal civil rights lawsuit against the police dept and two officers. She alleged excessive force.

The suit claims that officers responded to a call that Dawes and her partner Virgilio Rosales were sleeping in a car. It was a stolen Dodge SUV that they had purchased a month earlier.

They were unaware that it was stolen.

Startled by searchlights Dawes reversed, caused a minor collision and the lawsuit continues:

“Dawes still unaware of what was going on or who was blocking her path, pulled her vehicle forward so she could have a clear path to back up. As Dawes backed up her vehicle at a very slow rate of speed, defendants Hess and Kimpel fired at least 13 shots through the passenger side window, striking Dawes four times in the neck, her right tricep, left arm, upper left chest and right forearm.

“Dawes’s right earlobe was also partially amputated. Dawes was transported to Baylor Hospital where she later died as a result of her injuries.”

Rosales was also arrested for unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon. The suit says no weapons were visible to police throughout the incident.

Police are advised to not shoot into moving vehicles.

However, 30 deaths have been attributed to this during 2017.

Read more in the Guardian here.