Pubdate: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 Source: Toronto Sun (CN ON) Copyright: 2005, Canoe Limited Partnership. Contact: http://www.canoe.com/NewsStand/TorontoSun/home.html Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/457 Author: Jonathan Jenkins, Toronto Sun BOY TRAUMATIZED BY DAD'S DEATH - UNCLE PAUL MEDEIROS' 5-year-old son has been traumatized after watching his father die in a confrontation with police during a drug raid, the boy's uncle says. "I asked him what happened to his dad," Manny Botelho said. "He started crying. He started telling me everything, that they were beating him, kicking him, punching him, his father screaming and everything. The kid saw everything." Medeiros, 34, died after drug squad cops kicked in the door of his home on Jan.14. His death is being investigated by the province's Special Investigations Unit, which investigates all cases of death or serious injury involving police. Botelho said his nephew is taking the tragedy very hard, as is Medeiros' wife, Lucy, and her other five children. "He's doing badly. He can't even speak, that kid," Botelho said. Search Warrant "He's not eating or anything. His mom's even worse." Toronto police had a search warrant looking for drugs when they raided the home, around 1:30 a.m. Medeiros confronted cops at the door and was pepper sprayed and hit with an expandable baton. It's not known if any drugs were found or if anyone was charged. The family was allowed back home yesterday. "We had to clean the home, the blood and everything," Botelho said, adding the SIU is supposed to brief the family today. A visitation will be held for Medeiros today, 5-9 p.m. at the Cardinal Funeral Home, 366 Bathurst St. near Dundas St. W, and again tomorrow between 2-4 p.m. and 5-9 p.m. The funeral will be held Wednesday at 9 a.m. at St. Helen's Church, on Dundas St. W. and Lansdowne Ave. "They killed an innocent guy," Botelho said. "He doesn't have a criminal record, he doesn't even have a parking ticket." - --- MAP posted-by: Derek