Gaymon's Fay Still Has Not Schled NJ Trip As Demands For Answers Grow | Montclair, NJ Patch

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• FAY OF DEAN GAYMON CALLS FOR FERAL PROBE OF SHOOTG DEATH
• LGBTQ COMMISSN STATEMENT ON THE SHOOTG OF DEFARRA "DEAN" GAYMON
• ATLANTA CEO DEFARRA GAYMON KILLED BY COP SEX SWEEP OF N.J. PARK
• NEW YORK TIM ARTICLE DELV INTO DEFARRA ‘DEAN’ GAYMON’S DEATH
• GAYMON'S FAY STILL HAS NOT SCHLED NJ TRIP AS DEMANDS FOR ANSWERS GROW
• DEFARRA GAYMON, BLACK BANK EXECUTIVE, KILLED AFTER BEG ACCED OF PROPOSNG MALE COP FOR SEX
• DEFARRA GAYMON, ATLANTA CRED UNN CHIEF, SHOT BY P NEW JERSEY PARK; FAY QUTNS SHOOTG
• QUTNS LGER SHOOTG DEAN GAYMON BRANCHBROOK PARK

FAY OF DEAN GAYMON CALLS FOR FERAL PROBE OF SHOOTG DEATH

Skip to ma ntentBloomfield, NJVerona-Cedar Grove, NJBelleville-Nutley, NJWt Orange, NJCaldwells, NJSouth Orange, NJLivgston, NJNewark, NJMaplewood, NJHasbrouck Heights, NJNew JerseyTop Natnal NewsSee All CommuniEssex County thori now say that the Atlanta CEO and ex-Montclair rint killed Friday Newark's Branch Brook Park was masturbatg and proposned an unrver Essex County sheriff's tective before a tsle sparked the fatal say that DeFarra "Dean" Gaymon, 48, who was visg New Jersey for his 30-year Montclair High School rnn, "appeared to panic" when he found out the man was a tective. They were an area of the park that has a reputatn for beg a gay sex pickup spot, thori said.

Gaymon, who was unarmed, lunged at the officer and tried to disarm him while threateng to kill him durg the stggle, said Essex County Actg Prosecutor Robert Lro to the Star-Ledger.

LGBTQ COMMISSN STATEMENT ON THE SHOOTG OF DEFARRA "DEAN" GAYMON

The 29-year-old officer, who has not been intified shot Gaymon once the abdomen after he appeared to reach to his pocket, Lro out what's happeng Montclairwh ee, real-time updat om fay of Gaymon exprsed growg anger and outrage a statement released late Tuday rponse to a news release issued earlier the day by the Essex County prosecutor. A fay spokperson, Sheila Edwards, told Patch late Tuday that the Gaymon fay would travel to New Jersey next week to seek answers after buryg Gaymon.

The fay lived New Jersey for 20 years before movg to South Carola and Gaymon's parents still live Columbia. Gaymon worked at the South Carola State Cred Unn for many years before movg to Atlanta, where he was print and chief executive officer of the Atlanta Employe' Cred Unn when he out what's happeng Montclairwh ee, real-time updat om not only leav behd his parents, but also his wife, Mellanie, and children Dev, 15, Ja, 12, Jillian, 10, and Dale, 8.

That new fay statement is as follows, s entirety:"Earlier today, we issued a public statement exprsg our profound ncerns and our mands for answers the fatal shootg of our hband, father, son, brother, uncle, , and -law, Dean Gaymon, by an unrver Essex County Sheriff Detective. Based upon the news release issued today by the Essex County Prosecutor and other public statements om that office, our grief and ncern is now acpanied by tense and growg anger and, the Gaymon fay, will be makg a direct requt to the feral ernment, through the Uned Stat Attorney's Office and Feral Bure of Invtigatn this district of New Jersey, to step immediately and take over the vtigatn of Dean's reviewg the police officer's statement summarized today by the Essex County Prosecutor, we are whout any doubt that the statement is a blatant lie ncted after four days of unexplaed silence. Dean Gaymon was a nonvlent, nonaggrsive and nonthreateng person his entire life.

ATLANTA CEO DEFARRA GAYMON KILLED BY COP SEX SWEEP OF N.J. PARK

We have no doubt our md that the problem which led to this killg was not Dean Gaymon, but stead a lol muny where law enforcement officers are shootg and killg dividuals at an alarmg rate.

NEW YORK TIM ARTICLE DELV INTO DEFARRA ‘DEAN’ GAYMON’S DEATH

Dean Gaymon was an exceptnal person and we will not s by and allow his murr to be treated as a route or typil matter.

Essex County has wrongfully taken Dean Gaymon's life and wh him not beg here to prent his si of the story, they are now attemptg to fame him ath and to kill his name and reputatn addn to his body. "Ined, two very different pictur had emerged throughout the day Tuday of Gaymon, of Suwanee, Geia, who was shot ad on Friday a Newark park jt before attendg the 30th Montclair High School rnn he had anized.

GAYMON'S FAY STILL HAS NOT SCHLED NJ TRIP AS DEMANDS FOR ANSWERS GROW

"Gaymon's fay released a statement earlier on Tuday llg Gaymon a lovg hband and father of four young children.

DEFARRA GAYMON, BLACK BANK EXECUTIVE, KILLED AFTER BEG ACCED OF PROPOSNG MALE COP FOR SEX

"Our fay is a state of shock and vastated that DeFarra Ivan Gaymon, affectnately known as "Dean", was gunned down by an unrver Essex County Sheriff's Officer a Newark, New Jersey park broad daylight, " while visg that cy to attend his 30th rnn at Montclair High School, the fay said. While bendg down to retrieve the handcuffs, the placloth officer was approached by Gaymon who was engaged a sex act at the time. "Acrdg to the DA's statement, "The officer pulled out his badge, intified himself as a police officer and rmed Gaymon he was unr arrt.

DEFARRA GAYMON, ATLANTA CRED UNN CHIEF, SHOT BY P NEW JERSEY PARK; FAY QUTNS SHOOTG

Gaymon ignored those mands, did not raise his arms or make his hands visible and repeatedly threatened to kill the officer.

Gaymon then lunged at and attempted to disarm the officer while reachg to his own pocket. Fearg for his life, the officer discharged his service weapon, strikg Gaymon once. " The DA's office said the officer immediately lled for help and renred first aid to Gaymon, who was shed to Universy Hospal where he was pronounced ad at 9 p.

QUTNS LGER SHOOTG DEAN GAYMON BRANCHBROOK PARK

Meanwhile, the Gaymon fay's earlier statement exprsed plete dismay over the cint and obv anger over how the se has been handled: "Dean was a voted and lovg hband to wife Mellanie, and father to four young children. He was a lovg son to his father and mother, Reverend Gee and Mattie Gaymon, lovg brother to his sister Kelly, and was kd and lovg to his numero fay members and iends.

Gaymon had flown to New Jersey on Thursday night for the gatherg, which was schled the next eveng at the Crowne Plaza Hotel at the Meadowlands.

J., park, the fay of Defarra “Dean” Gaymon has rolved s lawsu agast Essex County.

Defarra “Dean” Gaymon, the head of the Atlanta Cy Employe Cred Unn, was New Jersey 2010 for his 30th high school rnn when he was shot by a tective vtigatg reports of public sex Branch Brook Park Newark.

Officer Edward Esposo said he had returned to a wood area the park to retrieve handcuffs he dropped earlier and that was when Gaymon approached.

Acrdg to Esposo’s acunt, Gaymon ran when the officer tried to arrt him, threateng to kill the officer. Esposo said he shot Gaymon only when the chase end at a pond and Gaymon reached to his pocket and lunged his 's fay lled the 48-year-old man's ath a murr but a New Jersey grand jury cled to dict ’s wife, Mellanie, and their four children filed the su that was settled last week for $1. Gaymon, 48, was shot and killed by an Unr Sheriff Newark Friday night at Branchbrook Park.

"After learng tails about the shootg ath of Gaymon, the fay released another was shot and killed by an unr sheriff Branchbrook Park at about 6:00 p. Friday was an area of the park well known for secret trysts between men, and there was an unrver vtigatn gog on at the time of this unr sheriff told thori, acrdg to the Essex County Prosecutor's office, that he had helped arrt a spect but dropped his handcuffs the park and left his partner to go back to the wood area to fd was there, he alleg, that he enuntered what he lls a "tsle" where Gaymon, who was unarmed, tried to grab the unr sheriff's weapon, the gun was fired and Gaymon was is the entire statement the Gaymon fay released Tuday eveng:"Earlier today, we issued a public statement exprsg our profound ncerns and our mands for answers the fatal shootg of our hband, father, son, brother, uncle, , and -law, Dean Gaymon, by an unrver Essex County Sheriff Detective. Based upon the news release issued today by the Essex County Prosecutor and other public statements om that office, our grief and ncern is now acpanied by tense and growg anger and, the Gaymon fay, will be makg a direct requt to the feral ernment, through the Uned Stat Attorney's Office and Feral Bure of Invtigatn this district of New Jersey, to step immediately and take over the vtigatn of Dean's reviewg the police officer's statement summarized today by the Essex County Prosecutor, we are whout any doubt that the statement is a blatant lie ncted after four days of unexplaed note the followg:1.

We are absolutely nvced that the officer's statement is a ntemptible lie, and the Essex County Prosecutor should be ashamed of prentg this statement to the public prr to the pletn of a thorough County has wrongfully taken Dean Gaymon's life and wh him not beg here to prent his si of the story, they are now attemptg to fame him ath and to kill his name and reputatn addn to his body.

Three years after DeFarra “Dean” Gaymon, the former print/CEO of Cred Unn of Atlanta, was killed durg a stg operatn Newark, N.

Acrdg to several media reports, the latt update regardg a lawsu filed by Gaymon’s fay suggted that the sheriff puty who shot Gaymon may have had him a posn that did not jtify killg the cred unn executive. DeFarra "Dean" Gaymon's relativ say they've gone om anger to outrage after hearg a prosecutor's versn of the cint that left him ad.

The 48 year-old Atlanta-based cred unn chief executive was Branch Brook Park that day, where an Essex County Sheriff's officer says Gaymon performed a self-satisfyg sex act and then proposned the male officer. As the officer attempted to arrt and handcuff Gaymon, he " what the officer perceived to be a threateng manner, turned, reached to his pocket and tried to disarm the officer, " said actg Essex County Prosecutor Robert Lro.

"That statement is a blatant lie ncted after four days of unexplaed silence, " the Gaymon fay said a statement of s own.