Life After the Impact: A Live Conversation with Uncle Bobby about the fight for justice for his nephew Oscar Grant hosted by impacted mother's Roxane Johnson & LaToya Benton. On New Year’s Day 2009, 22 year-old Oscar Grant III was fatally shot by former BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) Police Officer Johannes Mehserle on the platform of Fruitvale Station. BART officers had received a call about a fight on a crowded train at 2am. Oscar, who according to reports was not among those fighting, was detained with several others passages. Oscar was restrained and unarmed, when Officer Anthony Pirone kneed Oscar in the head and forced him to lie forward on the platform, and then office Mehserle drew his gun and fatally shot Oscar in the back. Mehserle claims he intended to draw his Taser, but he instead drew his 9mm pistol when he shot Oscar in the back.  ...