Parents of Walter Wallace Jr. demand justice and police reform in Philadelphia

Wallace was shot ten times by police while experiencing a mental health crisis.

“He’s mental,” were some of the last words Walter Wallace Jr. heard before he was shot 14 times by a Philadelphia police officer. On Oct. 26, 2020, less than a month after marrying his pregnant wife Dominique, Wallace was shot by police in West Philadelphia while experiencing a mental health crisis. His death, caught on video by police body camera and by residents on his block, caused an avalanche of protests in the city. “It's a hard pill to swallow, you know what I mean? I was thinking about my kids burying me and I had to bury my kids. No parent should have to go through that,” Walter Wallace Sr. said, speaking out for the first time with ABC News. “It's like the devil's ridin' over your back.”