A mother is seeking a restraining order against a former Torrance police officer fired from the force seven years ago following three controversial on-duty shootings of unarmed suspects, claiming he pulled a gun on her 21-year-old son.

Audulia Pozos claims in court documents that she fears Rehan Nazir is unstable and unpredictable and poses a significant danger to her family, which lives near his bail bonds business.

“I live in fear that this man is going to explode and get more physical with my family,” Pozos wrote in her application for the order. “I have had nightmares of this man coming to my house to hurt me or my children.

“I have to constantly be watching my children when they walk out the door to get into their friends’ or family members’ cars, worry when they walk their dogs, worry when they are home alone.”

Charges rejected

Torrance police officers arrested Nazir on Feb. 16 on suspicion of brandishing a gun, but the Torrance City Prosecutor’s Office has declined to file criminal charges, citing insufficient evidence.

Nazir denies the allegations, and appeared in Torrance court on April 19 to rebut Pozos’ allegations and block her attempt to make a temporary restraining order she obtained in March permanent.

His attorney, Shahim Motallebi, who convinced a judge to postpone the case until Friday so he could bring witnesses to court, did not return a message. Contacted by phone, Nazir said he would return a reporter’s call later, but never did.

In court Wednesday, Judge Josh Fredricks extended a temporary restraining order imposed March 30 by Judge Glenda Veasey that orders Nazir to stay away from Audulia Pozos’ family. Family members called Torrance police Feb. 16 when Nazir allegedly pulled the gun on her son, Cesar, and his cousins because they were standing next to his parked car.

The Pozos family lives on 189th Street, near Nazir’s business, Highlow Bail Bonds, at 18901 Crenshaw Blvd.

“He just pulled out his gun,” Cesar Pozos said in an interview. “We weren’t even approaching him. He always approaches us.”

Fired in 2010

Nazir, who spent 11 years on the Torrance force, was fired in 2010. Although police officer privacy rights preclude the public release of the reasons for his termination, court records showed Nazir played a role in shooting three unarmed criminal suspects within three months in 2007.

The first shooting occurred in May 2007, when Nazir shot forgery suspect Elliott Alexander Dugan six times as Dugan tried to hide under a parked car, court records show. Dugan, who was convicted on forgery and identity theft charges, collected $299,999 in a June 2009 settlement, city officials said.

Two months later, Nazir and Officer Arlan Wells shot and killed burglary suspects Shawn McCoy, 22, of Adelanto and Charlie Wilson, 20, of Gardena as they tried to hide in a backyard shed.

Court records showed they were shot a combined 23 times.

The mothers of the two men filed a lawsuit alleging the officers’ tactics were “deadly, excessive, unnecessary and unlawful.” The city paid $675,000 to settle the case.

Since losing his job, Nazir made repeated attempts through the courts to get his job back, costing the city’s taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees. Through September, when the case was finally settled, the amount billed for legal services since 2008 was $622,548.41, Deputy City Attorney Patrick Sullivan said.

Nazir failed to get his job back, but claimed victory.

“I won that case with Torrance,” he said.

Opened bail bonds office

About two years ago, Nazir opened Highlow Bail Bonds. According to the business’ website, the company also offers bail bonds, “fugitive recovery” and private investigations.

Pozos claims in her application for the restraining order that the trouble between Nazir and her family began Aug. 26, 2015, when Nazir and an employee walked onto her property. They were intoxicated and accused her son and a friend of throwing rocks at them, she wrote.

A verbal argument became physical, and Torrance police were called to restore order.

Pozos said her son and friend had done nothing wrong. Nazir had actually found plastic pellets on the ground that likely had been shot at possums to keep them out of garbage cans.

Pozos wrote that she was told a Torrance police detective would contact her, but no one ever did.

About a year later, Nazir, appearing intoxicated and holding a red plastic cup, accused her son, Cesar, of flashing gang sings at him, she wrote.

Her son, Pozos said, was not in a gang and did not throw gang signs.

Allegedly intoxicated

“I asked him to get off my property and not come to my house intoxicated,” Pozos said in court documents. “He was obviously drunk and not in all his senses.”

During that encounter, Nazir told her he did not want her son walking by his building.

In February, after Nazir was arrested, Torrance police booked him into the Redondo Beach jail to avoid a conflict. Nazir was released when he posted $25,000 bail.

Originally scheduled for arraignment May 18, Nazir no longer has to appear because the case was rejected.

But there is still the matter of the stay-away order. In her request to the judge to keep Nazir away permanently, Pozos said she fears what could happen if tensions flare again.

“If this last confrontation would have ended up in a scuffle, Ray’s gun could have gone off and shot my child, my nephews, me, my other son, anyone of my neighbors’ children,” she wrote. “Please protect me and my family from this man and his employees/friends. He is an accident ready to happen.”