Lawyers for the family of Xavier Guadalupe Hernandez are asking for witnesses to come forward regarding his death during an El Paso police arrest.

The family’s attorneys claim police used excessive force and restraint on Hernandez, who was having a mental health crisis.

An autopsy deemed the death a homicide caused by asphyxia from chest compression with cocaine toxicity as a significant factor.

The attorneys for the family of an El Paso man whose controversial death while being arrested by police on Interstate 10 was ruled a homicide are asking for witnesses to come forward.

Xavier Guadalupe Hernandez , 30, died on July 13 after he was shocked multiple times with a Taser and pinned down by police officers for more than five minutes along I-10.

"He was in pain, in crisis, and he begg

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