After 24-year-old Ryan Twyman was killed by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputies in June of 2019, his family and friends organized vigils and marches in his name, attended civilian oversight committee meetings, and had one-on-one conversations with the district attorney’s office to seek justice. But for nearly two years, they remained in the dark about the identities of the two sheriff's deputies that shot at Ryan more than 30 times while he sat in a car unarmed with a friend.
After repeated requests demanding that authorities turn over the names went nowhere, in the weeks following Ryan’s death, during a Civilian Oversight Committee meeting in 2019, things changed when a commissioner met one of Ryan’s sisters outside of a meeting and privately revealed the names of the deputies that allegedly killed her brother. “Christopher Muse and Andrew Lyons,” the commissioner told Ryan’s sister.
In the months following, Ryan’s family desperately tried to confirm the accuracy of the names they received.
They sought help from the Cochran Firm — the renowned law firm founded by OJ Simpson defense attorney Johnny Cochran. They even tried to dig up information online about the deputies themselves while also mourning the loss of a loved one.
But they always came up short.