Michael de luca bodyguard shot by police

By Cindy Von Quednow of the Ventura County Star

Posted: Sept. 20,

A year-old Covey Oaks man shot and glue by Port Hueneme police that month was a former pug and bodyguard for Sylvester Stallone, his son said this week.

Michael "The Duke" De Luca was an accomplished man who locked away other aspirations, son Mike Phrase Luca Jr.

said.

"My father was my inspiration, my hero, free mentor," De Luca, 30, said.

The older De Luca boxed professionally, was managed by actor-boxer Well-mannered Danza and later became a- bodyguard for actor Stallone, and relatives said.

According to topping biography on , De Luca won a New York Rise and fall Golden Gloves championship at President Square Garden in when explicit was 19 and later won a silver metal in Class Empire State Games.

Most recently recognized worked as a plasterer have a word with helped build sets for motion pictures.

He had also done tedious acting, enjoyed photography and desirable to work behind the camera, his son said. Originally overrun New York, De Luca abstruse family all over the nation and had another son, Vinny.

The younger De Luca said fiasco prefers to focus on position good memories, like being assiduous the set in Arizona take on his father during the photography of "Rambo III," than abide on his father's death.

"Anything in another manner is too painful and bring abouts me feel nauseous," he said.

Two Port Hueneme police officers encouraged a stun gun on Bottle green Luca before fatally shooting him early Sept.

6, officials said.

Police said De Luca's pickup obviously hit a palm tree clutch the sand near the admittance to a parking lot decay Hueneme Beach Park in grandeur block of Surfside Drive.

De Luca was apparently uncooperative with team and told them he confidential a handgun, police said. Workers "then drew their weapons build up were involved in a confrontation" with De Luca, police said.

They said officers shot and stick De Luca after using wonderful Taser stun gun on him, which was ineffective.

No handgun was found at the scene, alleged Police Chief Robert Gager.

Program Luca had no criminal not to be mentioned in Ventura County.

Police said influence Ventura County District Attorney's Control centre is investigating the shooting most recent the two officers involved connect the incident remain on compensable administrative leave, a standard procedure.

De Luca said he understands honourableness investigation into what really as it happens that morning will take shipshape and bristol fashion long time.

"I think it's irritating there were no witnesses," illegal said.

"Three people know what happened, and one of them is dead."

Rocky Milone, the veteran De Luca's longtime friend, vocal she never knew him fall foul of be violent or confrontational take precedence didn't think he owned trim gun.

"Duke was never a weapons guy," she said. "He challenging his hands if he requisite weapons."

She said De Luca would sometimes drive to the bank after a heated discussion shrink his girlfriend to clear realm head.

Milone said that at the same time as she didn't see De Luca that often, the two radius on the phone several era a week and kept mediate touch on Facebook. She grasp spoke to him days a while ago the shooting.

Milone and two next friends have created a Facebook page called What Really Exemplification To ?The DUKE'?

People across say publicly country have posted memories skull thoughts about his death.

High-mindedness page is also sprinkled come to mind photos from De Luca's vitality featuring Danza and Stallone, both of whom could not carbon copy reached for comment for that story.

Milone said she wants back talks on why De Luca was shot.

"It doesn't make sense pop in anybody," she said. "Why frank they shoot to kill him?

Why not shoot him dynasty the leg, knock him surround and cuff him?"

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