Details of complaint:

Re: File# B07217013

The case involves a 68 year old senior who has never had a history of fighting and in fact is known as a peacemaker; and a 27 year old man, who is a professionally trained wrestler, adult baseball pitcher and with a history of being very confrontational.

Nye, the victim and we, the victim’s kin were denied of our constitutional right to due process, as follows:

1. Protocol for conducting investigations not followed

   • A drug test on Ty Reddish was not done when he was on summary probation at the time of the incident that requires him to submit to drug and alcohol testing. I stated he seemed to be on drugs to Sheriff. Asking for that to be checked.

   • Det. Martinez disregarded Ty Reddish’s statement that he used several “signature holds” – a wrestling term - on Nye and that he is a wrestler and his father a wrestling coach and taught him.

   • The pictures of Nye show that he was badly beat up (front & back). The pathologist did say in his report that there were signs of choking and petecchial hemorrhage consistent with strangulation. Again, despite this, no further investigation was done.

   • Sgts Shultz and Wilhelm refused to accept and put in the file affidavits from other people who had similar past encounters with Ty Reddish that proved his history of aggressive behavior.

2. Withheld evidence and refused to consider evidence that contradicted their initial and predetermined conclusions

   • Nowhere in the police reports filed by Det. Martinez did he mention that in the audio interview with Philip Reddish, the latter mentioned that he made a call to Brian Floyd, ex-deputy to DA Rod Pacheco, before he was interviewed by Martinez. Phil states that “we have a mutual combat that got a changed category when Nye had a heart attack..”

   • The pictures of Nye and the autopsy report show that what happened was an attack on a senior. Ty’s injury was a swollen hand from beating Nye. On the other hand, Nye’s hands showed no marks or signs of hitting anyone. The pathologist clipped Nye’s nails to check if there was any skin under them and there was not.

   • Nye has a ruptured muscle in his neck along with other multiple injuries which are indicative of choking (as supported by the findings in the autopsy) and being beat in the head.

   • Ty jumped on Nye’s back so hard that the actual knee marks had scraped off the skin

3. Made prejudicial statements and planted false information in the case

   • In the meeting my daughter and Dave Clark had with Sgts Shultz and Wilhelm, they said that Nye gave his glasses to me at the time of the incident so he can fight – this is totally false information.

   • Det. Martinez told us that the coroner said Nye died of a heart attack. When we talked to the coroner, the coroner said he never said that. When confronted about it, Det. Martinez said he “guesstimated” it.

   • Another false information that was “planted” in the file was that Nye choked Ty, a matter that was mentioned by former Sheriff Bob Doyle in a call to my daughter.

4. Participated in the cover up of the crime by allowing influence to cloud their judgment of the case. They did not allow the complete investigation to play out and then make a conclusion.

   • Philip Reddish mentions that he made a phone call to Brian Floyd (an ex-deputy chief to DA Rod Pacheco) prior to the interview. He states that “it is a mutual combat that has changed category to heart attack”.

   • By their actuations and in the meeting in the District Attorney’s office to discuss the case, Det. Martinez, Sgts Shultz and Wilhelm, together with ADA Calhoun perpetuated the cover-up of the crime committed on my husband. The affidavits showing Ty’s pattern were not considered. They disregarded all the overwhelming evidences in the case, agreed on the “mutual combat” and “heart attack” theory, and decided to consider the case closed.

   • This case speaks of systemic corruption in the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. This is not an incident of one individual or a few. It is a broken system. They are preying on a vulnerable senior woman who lost her husband.

5. Violated our privacy by allowing a newsman to have a copy of the autopsy report even before we had a copy

6. Failed to protect the victim’s kin and the community from harassment after the incident.

   • The day Nye was killed, Phil and Sherry Reddish, Ty’s parents followed us in the car on our way to a friend’s house for dinner. They jumped out of the car to tell our friend not to let us in the house and called every few minutes while we were at dinner.

   • The next day, they were going house to house in the neighborhood telling stories and accusations. If someone in the neighborhood visited us, they immediately start harassing them.

7. Denied access to police report, autopsy report until 5 months after the incident

   • Willene of the Cabazon Sheriff Station would not give us a copy of the police report. We were told that if we get a court order, they will give us the report but blacked out. She said she had never seen a Victim’s Manual.

   • It was only after the case was transferred to Internal Administration or in January 2008 (5 months after the incident) that we were provided with a copy of the reports and the audio interviews.