Jean Barreto (aka Jean Barreta) is a 26 year old man from Osceola County, Florida. Beretta was burned over 75% of his body after being burned at a gas station. Beretta blames the Osceola County Sheriff’s Department alleging that their decision to deploy a Taser near a gas pump caused his burns.
Jean Barreto Incident Details
Barreto Burned At Gas Station, Blames Osceola County Sheriffs. “Attorneys for a Florida man say he is still fighting for his life after being “cooked alive” in February when a sheriff’s deputy allegedly deployed a Taser while the man was covered in gas while fueling his motorbike. Jean Barreto, 26, has third-degree burns over 75% of his body, his lawyers said Wednesday. Both Barreto and the deputy who allegedly deployed the Taser are facing charges, Osceola County Sheriff Marcos R. Lopez said during a Thursday press conference. Barreto is facing charges including fleeing and attempting to allude law enforcement, reckless driving and resisting an officer without violence. The deputy is charged with culpable negligence.” [CBS]
Police Claim Barreto Pointed Guns At People At A Wawa. “The sheriff’s office said deputies tried to arrest Beretta because he was part of a group of motorcyclists that were pointing guns at people in the county. During a traffic stop, they said Beretta fled but deputies caught up with him at the Wawa. Beretta’s attorney Mark Nejame disputes that. “If he was fleeing, ask yourself why would he spend a minute and a half putting gas in his bike which was only a mile away from his home,” he said.” [CBS Local]
Witness: Police Used Taser On Barreto. “A witness to the incident said he heard a Taser deployed, but Osceola Sheriff Marcos Lopez never confirmed a taser played a role in the fire. A newly obtained copy of the state fire marshal’s office report suggests otherwise. It concludes, in part, “the most probable cause of the fire was an electric discharge from the deputies deploying a department-issued Taser device.”” [WMBF]
Barreto Lawyer: Client Was Attacked By Deputy. “Our investigation confirms that after filling his tank but before the gas cap was put back on, he was attacked by being body slammed with a flying tackle from behind by an Osceola County sheriff’s deputy, even though he was now in Orange County’s jurisdiction and had been for at least 5 miles. After he was pumping gas for over a minute and a half, Mr. Barreto was unknowingly bum-rushed from behind with the flying tackle by an Osceola county sheriff’s deputy, who had been secretly trailing him at the gas station.” [Nejame Law]
Lawyers: Fireball Caused By Osceola County Sheriff’s Taser. ” At least three other Osceola County deputy vehicles then appeared, in an apparently strategized effort, all of them being out of their jurisdiction, having left Osceola County and entered into Orange County. Seeing the deputy and Mr. Barreto on the ground as a result of the deputy’s flying tackle, one of the deputies who appeared in one of the three vehicles, proceeded to employ the use of a taser on Mr. Barreto, engulfing almost his entire body in flames and approximately half of the other deputy’s as well. This fireball, caused by the reckless, foolish, unnecessary and deadly tasing leading to the horrific explosion, engulfing the two of them and injuring 2 other deputies with minor burns. ” [Nejame Law]
Lawyers: Barreto Lost Almost All Skin On His Body, “Cooked Alive.” “After 10 weeks in the hospital, Mr. Barreto is still undergoing potentially life saving but excruciating painful treatment. He is without skin on most of his body, his skin having been burned off. He undergoes procedures that require his dead skin to be routinely peeled off of his body. He is wrapped and unwrapped in gauze daily, bleeding profusely still as he doesn’t have the requisite amount of skin to contain his body fluids. Mr. Barreto will again be placed in a medically induced coma over the next couple of days, as he undergoes debridement (removal of necrotic tissue) ahead of first of its kind treatment at Orlando Health, which has been growing skin tissue taken from a 4 inch patch of unburned skin, to hopefully commence grafting. While being cooked alive, Mr. Barreto sustained third degree burns on approximately 75% of his body, front and back from his feet to the bottom of his neck.” [Nejame Law]
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