19-year-old man killed in Saginaw officer-involved shooting identified
The man who was fatally shot by a Saginaw police officer while serving a felony arrest warrant on Thursday was a beloved son and friend, family said.
Alexavier Nalani Nahoolewa, 19, died at the John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Officers went to a home in the 1300 block of North Creek Drive around 8 a.m. May 7 to serve the warrant. Nahoolewa, who was the suspect named in the warrant, resisted arrest and got into a “physical confrontation” with the officers, according to Saginaw police.
During the fight, one officer fired a gun and shot Nahoolewa, police said. Officers provided first aid until medics arrived and Nahoolewa was taken to a hospital where he later died.
Details of the warrant for Nahoolewa’s arrest have not been released
“His family is devastated and searching for answers while trying to process an unimaginable loss,” his family wrote in a GoFundMe post organized for funeral expenses. “But before anything else, Alexavier was a son, a friend, a loved one, and a human being whose life mattered deeply to the people around him.”
“The family wants him remembered for who he was, not only for the way he died,” the post read.
No officers were injured and the Texas Rangers are investigating the shooting, authorities have said.