LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – The family of a Las Vegas man shot and killed during a 2020 Black Lives Matter protest gathered to react to a federal jury’s verdict, which found two police officers liable regarding the shooting.

The Tuesday night vigil near the steps of the Lloyd George Federal Courthouse marked five years since Las Vegas Metropolitan police shot and killed Jorge Gomez, 25, who was spotted with a rifle in the downtown area during a protest.

Only two of the officers were found liable in the lawsuit filed by Gomez’s parents after the district attorney’s office failed to prosecute them.

“As far as the verdict, we really have a lot of mixed emotions right now,” Jeannie Llera, Gomez’s mother said. “It’s really hard to have any accountability here in Vegas against police, so we’re grateful for that portion of it.”

Llera thanked the gathering of mourners who listened to a poem reading and a violinist near the site of Gomez’s death.

“I’m grateful that the attention is still there, because people are still getting killed by police,” she said. “It’s not just my son, you know, he was a catalyst, as was George Floyd, to hopefully have changes made so that police are not murdering us.”

On the sidewalk, mourners wrote messages of support for Gomez’s family and expressed frustration at law enforcement actions during the review of Gomez’s death.

“The grief remains that’s never going to go away,” Llera said. “When you lose a kid, that whole always be part of your heart.”

After the verdict, 8 News Now reached out to representatives for LVMPD and the police union for comment, but did not receive a response.