Friends, Family React to Fatal SFPD Shooting of Carlos Hernandez

Erik Herrera was shocked to discover that his childhood friend was shot and killed last week by the San Fernando Police Department (SFPD). Officers, responding to an assault report, shot Hernandez, who was holding a shovel. He had allegedly threatened a woman sitting in a nearby car. “I knew Jose Carlos Hernandez growing up in that same neighborhood, on those same streets [where] he was murdered,” Herrera, who now resides in Florida, told the San Fernando Valley Sun/el Sol. Though he had moved away, Herrera said he had kept in touch with Hernandez.  Another longtime friend, Nichole Farias, said she…