HOPKINS, Mich. — For the first time since her son was killed by an Allegan County Sheriff's deputy, Joe Nagle's mother speaks out, demanding answers from investigators.
Kelly Nagle spoke to a group of family and friends at a roadside vigil in Hopkins near where her son was killed two weeks prior. She says she just wants to know the full story of what happened.
"There's something wrong here," says Nagle. "There's something horribly, horribly wrong here."
During the vigil, Nagle questioned the deputy's line of thinking.
"I want to know why the officer didn't use his taser," she wonders.
A question still lingering as the deputy did not have a dash or body camera.
Nagle also says she hasn't seen her son's body, calling on the sheriff to release him to her.
"So that we can have a proper burial and my friends can grieve and get some closure and start to heal," says Nagle.
Nagle now says change has to come from the tragedy of losing her son.
"If they needed my star athlete, my golden boy to do it then we needed it, this had to happen," says Nagle. "I don't want it to happen to anyone else."
Allegan County has still not released the name of the deputy who shot Nagle, and the incident remains under investigation.
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