In May, 2020 Ward and another KCK officer responded to an apartment complex where they discovered a stolen F-150 Ford Raptor truck, according to a federal lawsuit.

According to the lawsuit, the officers saw an “African American male entered the Raptor and left the driver’s side door open.”

The lawsuit says both officers ran toward the truck, where Ward’s partner tasered the man, Joshua Brunson. The truck lurched forward. Ward and his partner backed away from the Raptor, “while drawing their firearms and firing indiscriminately,” the lawsuit says. “Ward emptied the clip of his firearm and reloaded.”

Brunson was hit four times and almost died from blood loss, according to the lawsuit.

Brunson, it turns out, was “hired to clean and detail the Raptor,” the lawsuit said.