Shot 14 times, no charges for police: family’s grief over death of Cop City activist

Manuel Paez Teran, known as Tortuguita' was isolated and alone as police shot him dead - and his family and friends say the full story is being kept from them

Manuel Paez Teran's last word was: Help." It wasn't spoken; it was sent by text. From another location in the same forest where Paez Teran - or Tortuguita"- was camping in a tent, someone texted back: What do you need?"

Seconds later, Tortuguita - Spanish for Little Turtle"- was dead. Six Georgia state patrol troopers shot Paez Teran with at least 14 bullets, leaving 57 wounds. The 26-year-old had been sleeping in tents and tree houses in a public park for months, along with dozens of other forest defenders" in protest against a $90m police and fire department training center known as Cop City", planned for another part of the forest less than a mile away.