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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Menendez partially grants the sheriff's deputy's motion for summary judgment in the father's case against him and his employer stemming from the shooting of his son. The deputy is not entitled to qualified immunity, since his decision to shoot the son was not made objectively reasonable by the son's brief turning of his head such that a gun, pointed at his head, could theoretically have fired a bullet through the head and in the general direction of officers. A failure-to-train claim against the county is dismissed, however, since the father has not provided sufficient evidence for a factual dispute over whether the county received notice of a pattern of unconstitutional acts. The deputy and county's motions to strike a dash-camera footage exhibit is denied, and their motions to exclude two experts' reports and testimony are granted in part.