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Roger Heard Jr. "fired multiple shots at point-blank range" at an officer before police shot him in an exchange of gunfire at a Chattanooga gas station on the evening of Aug. 11, according to a statement Sunday from Hamilton County District Attorney Coty Wamp. Wamp also released security camera footage from the incident, which left a Chattanooga police officer injured and resulted in Heard's death. Heard shot investigator Celtain Batterson, striking him in his right arm, according to Wamp. Batterson was later taken to a hospital. Per protocol, Batterson and two other officers, Nicholas Ayres and Christopher Dyess, were placed on paid administrative leave in connection with the shooting, according to the Chattanooga Police Department. On Aug.11, Wamp said, investigators with the Chattanooga Police Department's gun team, along with other partnering agencies, were attempting to locate "multiple dangerous offenders" for the purpose of serving warrants, one of which was Heard. "Heard is a violent felon, a known drug dealer and a gang member," the DA said in a news release. He has served time in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, Wamp said, and has felony convictions in Hamilton and Bradley counties. At the time officers encountered him Aug. 11, he had outstanding felony warrants out of Knox County. Investigators were at the Speedway gas station at Holtzclaw Avenue and Third Street after receiving credible information about Heard's location, Wamp said, and that he would be "participating in illegal drug transactions." Police observed him parked at the pump and approached him to serve the outstanding warrants and arrest him. The security camera videos show an unmarked police vehicle stopping in front of Heard's car after he leaves a gas pump berth at the station. Wamp said Ayers and Batterson were "loudly and repeatedly announcing themselves as police officers" and were wearing police badges on their tactical belts. Another police vehicle with its lights on pulled in behind Heard's car. In plain clothes, Batterson could be seen approaching Heard's car with his gun pointed at Heard. "As Batterson approaches, Heard can be seen reaching for an object — what we now know to be a firearm — with his right arm," Wamp's release said. Batterson opened Heard's driver-side door, which Heard kicked out toward Batterson, the video shows. The footage does not have sound. "Batterson attempted to open the suspect's vehicle door and at that time the suspect made a kicking movement in Batterson's direction, raised his right arm and fired multiple shots at point-blank range in Batterson's direction, striking him in the right arm," the release said. "Batterson instantly retreated before being able to respond with gunfire." Heard ran from the vehicle while officers fired at him. Another angle showed Heard stumbling to the ground. He tried to get up again before falling. "As the video shows, Heard was purposefully traveling in the direction of Batterson, and still armed, when he was met with gunfire from Batterson and other law enforcement officers," Wamp said. Heard had a "large amount of cash" on him, about one pound of marijuana in his vehicle and his firearm was stolen in Chattanooga in 2022, according to Wamp. Because he's a felon, Wamp said, it's unlawful for him to possess any type of firearm. "On the night of August 11, 2023, Heard was committing a litany of felony offenses, all of which are overshadowed by his attempt to gun down a law enforcement officer at point-blank range," Wamp said. "The officers involved in this incident, like so many officers are required to do, were forced to make split-second decisions under extreme stress and pressure," she added later. "Investigator Batterson, Investigator Ayers, and Officer Dyess did the exact job that they were called and trained to do. Our community is fortunate beyond measure that we did not lose a law enforcement officer." Wamp said investigators pieced together the details of the incident through examination of the crime scene, witness interviews and video footage. The footage released Sunday is owned by a private company in a different state and was made available to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation after a subpoena, the DA said. "It is not CPD protocol for investigators to be equipped with body worn cameras, therefore, nobody worn camera was able to capture the attempted murder of Investigator Batterson," Wamp said. "As no investigation can be complete in just over a week's time, the investigation remains ongoing." The shooting happened at around 9:40 p.m. at a Speedway gas station. Heard was pronounced dead after being taken to a hospital. The footage shows the incident from two angles. There's also a close-up shot at half speed of Batterson opening the door before Heard kicks it and flees the vehicle. There were about a dozen other cars parked at the gas station. In the second angle, other police vehicles moved into the parking lot with their lights on as Batterson's unmarked police car pulled in front of Heard's vehicle, blocking it. After Heard fired at Batterson, Batterson could be seen taking cover behind a gas pump while Heard ran toward him and fell to the ground. Batterson pointed his weapon at Heard again. The footage then blurred Heard's body as Batterson stepped behind a police vehicle and another officer moved in. More police vehicles arrived on the street as a group of officers gathered around Heard. They appeared to be administering medical aid. An ambulance pulled in approximately nine minutes later and first responders brought in a stretcher. Batterson received intensive surgery Wednesday.

The investigation is continuing Sunday into the fatal shooting by a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy of a man who allegedly attempted to rob a woman on Florence Avenue. The shooting occurred about 3:15 p.m. Saturday on the 1300 block of Florence Avenue, at Hooper Avenue, according to the Sheriff’s Information Bureau. Deputies from the sheriff’s Century Station were driving on the 1600 block of Florence when a woman flagged them down, said a man pointed a gun at her and demanded money before she ducked down in her vehicle. She told deputies the man then fled westbound on Florence. The deputies looked around and found a man fitting the description on the 1300 block of Florence. When the deputies approached, the man allegedly pulled a firearm and a deputy opened fire. The man was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. A firearm and knife were recovered at the scene, according to authorities.

The Eureka Police Department has released body-worn camera footage from officers' fatal shooting of Matthew Robert Williams, 31, on Nov. 26 after a traffic stop. According to EPD, Williams fled from the passenger seat of a vehicle EPD pulled over for expired registration tags near the Ingomar Club and officers Jeremy Sollom and Nick Jones contacted him on the north end of the Humboldt County Library's main branch. There, Williams reportedly pulled a firearm from his waistband and chambered a round, prompting the officers to open fire. The video released today is edited and narrated by EPD. It shows the initial traffic stop and then a portion of the fatal encounter. It does now show what preceded Jones and Sollom contacting Williams, but starts with the three men engaged in a struggle, with an officer telling Williams to "get on the ground and stop reaching." During the struggle, a firearm briefly appears visible in Williams' hands, and he appears to chamber a round before Sollom opens fire. According to police, Williams was found to be in possession of 42 grams of fentanyl, a "large amount of cash" and a ghost gun, meaning one that does not have a serial number and is untraceable. He also reportedly had several outstanding felony warrants. Jones and Sollom suffered minor injuries in the altercation, according to the video. They were placed on paid administrative leave following the shooting but have since returned to fully duty. The shooting remains under investigation by the multi-agency Humboldt County Critical Incident Response Team, and the investigation's findings will be turned over to the Humboldt County District Attorney's Office for review when complete. EPD is conducting a parallel internal investigation.

Investigators have released the full 57-page report into the deaths of three adults and five children in what police say was a mass-family killing and then a death by suicide on Jan. 4. The report also contains body camera footage from officers who entered the family home after they were alerted by community members there were people dead inside. The media-released footage blocks out the bodies of victims as police discover them in bedrooms throughout the home and check it for a possible active shooter. The report says some of the officers knew the family well and when the suspect’s body is found, the discovering officer identifies him by name. Killed were Tausha Haight, her five children and her mother. Also, dead was her estranged husband Michael Haight who seemed to be staying in the workout room in the basement of the family’s home after he had been served divorce papers on Dec. 27 2022. Along with Tausha Haight, killed were her children Macie (17), Briley (12), twins Ammon and Sienna (7), Gavin (4) and Gail Earl 78, who, according to the report, was staying in the house because of safety concerns. Those concerns were heightened after the suspect declined to leave the home and then when firearms were removed from the home a day or two before the killings. Michael Haight left a note that blames others for the events leading up to his deadly round of shootings, and declares that he would “rather rot in hell than put up with another day of this.” The note also mentioned his frustration of efforts to create an “ideal” family. The investigation also notes multiple people reporting his focus on maintaining the appearance of a perfect family, even when they knew there was deep friction inside the home. The report also clarifies a timeline of events investigators felt were significant leading up to the murders at approximately 3:30 a.m. on Jan. 4. That included that gunshots possibly awakened and then were heard by a neighbor who believed, at the time, they were fireworks. The investigation notes family difficulties dating back in 2020 with a recent report of abuse on Dec. 8, 2022 from a daughter. That report was believed to be an incident from a 2020 report that had already been investigated, so didn’t get further attention. Tausha Haight told trusted friends that as her husband’s mean actions became more focused on her children, she made a firm decision to divorce him and drew up divorce papers before Christmas but waited until after the holiday to have them delivered. At least two of the children reported not liking the behavior of the suspect in the months before the killings. One daughter had a secret phone — confiscated by Tausha Haight — used to record her father when he would “act crazy.” Another daughter wanted him out of the house. There were also texts to friends about safety concerns and a message of “HELP” to a friend but followed by conversation about mundane things. A variety of people knew the Haight marriage was disintegrating and claimed the suspect would try to assert control. After divorce papers had been filed, and after he had been fired from his job, he told Tausha Haight she was backing him into a corner. More than one person interviewed by police said Tausha Haight feared her phone or even her home conversations were being monitored by the suspect. She would sometimes talk to people about her marriage troubles with sink water turned on and in hushed tones. She would send upbeat texts, that were different from private conversations with friends. The suspect also left a trail of Google and other online searches about the noise of gunshots. In the final days before the killings, Tausha met with her attorney again about divorce and the suspect left unusual paperwork on his desk, as if for others to find. Just after 11 a.m. on Jan. 4, a welfare check is requested to police. The home was checked and nobody answers the door. Phone calls and other efforts were made to contact family members. Just before 4 p.m. a neighbor entered the home through an unlocked door and reported to police there were bodies inside. Officers responded immediately.

0:00 - Dash cam 25:02 - Body cam Naperville police released video Tuesday showing an officer fatally shoot a man who ran at him with a hatchet during a traffic stop earlier this month. The officer pulled over a car about 11 a.m. June 3 near the intersection of Bond Street and McDowell Road when another car pulled up alongside, Naperville police said. A man, identified as 28-year-old Edward Samaan, got out of that car and “charged” at the officer with a hatchet in hand, police said. Body-camera video shows the officer standing by the car he pulled over for driving through a stop sign. The officer speaks to the driver for about 11 minutes when a silver-colored vehicle traveling in the opposite direction pulls up and stops next to the officer. Samaan then jumps out of the vehicle and rushes toward the officer, appearing to hold a hatchet in his right hand, according to the video. The officer fires several shots and Samaan falls to the ground. “I’ve just been attacked, shots fired, shots fired. Don’t move, don’t move,” the officer can be heard saying over the radio. “Send a medic!” More officers arrive at the scene and handcuff Samaan as he lays on the ground. Paramedics show up shortly after and begin to work on Samaan. “Dude, he just pulled up for no reason,” the officer who fired the shots can be heard telling another officer. Samaan was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The officer, a 22-year veteran of the department, was not injured. An independent investigation into the officer’s use of force is being conducted by the DuPage County Metropolitan Emergency Response and Investigative Team and the DuPage County state’s attorney’s office. ---------- Keep me motivated by donating to https://paypal.me/thisisbutter Viewer discretion is always advised when watching this video or any others videos. I do not take any responsibility for your trauma, psychological and/or mental harm. I do not recommend anyone to attempt, act/reproduce, and/or create hate from what you see in this video or any other videos. Enjoy.

Police body camera video was released of an officer-involved shooting that left an 18-year-old armed suspect dead Friday. Warren police held a press briefing Monday, showing an armed man running out of a garage and pulling out a 9 mm Glock pistol, pointing it at officers before they opened fire. Police are not naming the suspect out of respect for his family, said Lt. John Gajewski. The suspect was an 18-year-old high school student who was attending online classes. The suspect was believed to be suffering from a mental health crisis. Investigators say he had no previous criminal record other than a few traffic stops, and had bought his gun legally from a private individual. Video shows one officer began to enter the open garage, then turn and run back to his cruiser after seeing the suspect with his gun. After getting to his vehicle, the officer says "Gun gun gun" over the radio. After running out from around a bush outside his family's house in the area of Ryan Road and 11 Mile, he can be seen "taking an aggressive stance" toward officers, said Interim Police Commissioner Charles Rushton. Eleven shots were fired by two officers, with three rounds hitting the suspect. The 18-year-old did not fire on the officers. "Once the suspect was on the ground, our officers immediately began life-saving measures including CPR," Rushton said, adding that officers revived the victim three separate times before Warren Fire arrived at the scene within three minutes. A"gain, I want to point out as the video shows this entire incident from the first time they saw the suspect with a firearm in his hand to the volley of gunshots from the police officers, is approximately seven seconds." The 911 dispatch recordings were played, with a family member saying that his brother was "going crazy" and "assaulting everyone in the house." He added that he believed that his brother had not slept in four to five days.

A woman has died following an officer-involved shooting at a Lufkin apartment complex on Wednesday. At 6 p.m., an officer was dispatched to Great Oaks Apartments at 3205 Old Union Road for a report of two males who were kicking an apartment door. According to a release from Lufkin Police Chief David Thomas, the caller told dispatchers that the incident happened roughly five minutes earlier and that they didn’t know which way the suspects had gone. The caller was told that an officer would respond to the apartment. A short time later, a uniformed patrol officer arrived at the complex and scanned the area for the suspects while walking to the caller’s apartment, Thomas said. The officer rang the doorbell and moved away from the door to continue scanning the area for the suspects. Thomas said a few seconds later, the door opened, and a woman emerged, yelling and cursing while charging forward with the gun aimed toward the officer. The officer fired four shots as they retreated, and the woman was struck and collapsed at the end of a staircase with her gun still within reach, Thomas said. The officer immediately notified dispatch of the shooting. Thomas said after securing the gun, the officer began giving the woman CPR until paramedics arrived. The woman was pronounced dead at a local hospital a short time later. The woman was identified as the original caller, and authorities have said her identity will be released at a later time. The officer was not physically injured.

Boulder Police officers assisted a resident on Thursday with a late-night intruder who broke into her home and helped himself to some spaghetti noodles in a kitchen cabinet. The break-in by a raccoon was caught on officers' body cameras. The Boulder Police released some of the footage on Friday, along with some details on what happened. The resident said her first indication of something amiss was when her dog started barking at about 3:30 a.m. Thursday. Then she heard hissing and noises coming from the kitchen. "That's when she saw him hanging from the cabinet," Boulder Police said on social media. "He might not have been a burglar, but finding a big raccoon going through her kitchen cabinets was not what she expected to see at 3:30 in the morning!" The body-camera video shows the scene about an hour later, as officers attempted to remove the furry visitor from a kitchen cabinet, while the raccoon appeared reluctant to give up his perch. Then all at once, the raccoon came down from the cabinet and presumably took off out an open door. Boulder Police offered a reminder to be aware of your surroundings and the items that can attract wildlife. "Free food is usually the culprit, and this chunky boy snuck in through the back door before finding some spaghetti noodles to eat before we helped him along his way," police said. "Thankfully, no one was hurt during this incident, and we're glad we could help this community member."

The Connecticut Office of the Inspector General released a preliminary report and body camera footage on Wednesday outlining the moments before a fatal shooting that killed a suspect who fatally shot a K-9. K-9 Broko became the first police dog shot while in the line of duty in Connecticut. Police were serving an arrest warrant the night of Dec. 21 for Vaughn R. Malloy, a 42-year-old Black man accused of assault in connection to a shooting. Bodycam footage shows police outside the home he was in on Mechanic Street in Pawcatuck, ordering him to come out and surrender. When he didn’t, a tactical unit breached the door by using a ram attached to the front of an armored vehicle. Malloy ran out the back door. Police ran after him, telling him to stop. Broko was then sent after Malloy, and officers shot “less lethal impact munitions” at Malloy, according to the state report. Malloy is then seen falling to the ground and shooting at Broko multiple times. Gunshots hit a police vehicle and fatally shot Broko, according to the state report. Four officers then shot at Malloy, who later died at a hospital. The report does not detail how many rounds were fired at Broko or by police.

Video footage was released Tuesday of a traffic stop that led to the death of a fleeing suspect in which he was struck by a passing car. The Colorado State Patrol released the three video clips showing the early Thursday morning traffic stop on C-470 in Jefferson County. A trooper stopped a man who was driving westbound in the eastbound lanes of C-470 going toward Interstate 70 around 1:50 a.m. During the stop, the video shows the man tell the trooper he was trying to get back to Blackhawk but the roads were “all messed up,” clarifying that he was talking about road construction. The man was seen fidgeting with his pockets, demanding a cigarette, and disregarding orders from the trooper to stop with his behavior, according to the body-worn footage. The Trooper suspected the man was impaired, according to a CSP new release. While the trooper was trying to identify the driver, the suspect reentered the vehicle from the passenger side and climbed into the driver’s seat, the CSP said. At that point, the trooper tased the suspect to try to prevent him from taking off. But the man removed the taser probes and fled in his vehicle. The suspect drove down a grassy median, over a retaining wall, and landed on the eastbound I-70 off-ramp to westbound Highway 6 toward Golden, the release said. The suspect then ran from the vehicle across the off-ramp and jumped over another concrete barrier onto eastbound I-70 where he was hit and killed by a passing vehicle, according to the CSP. The driver of the vehicle that hit the suspect remained on scene. The wreck shut down eastbound I- 70 at the Morrison exit for more than five hours Thursday morning. The suspect's name is not being released at this time.

Police in Albany, New York are investigating an officer-involved shooting Wednesday morning, that Chief Eric Hawkins calls “an ambush.” It happened around 12:30 a.m. in the area of North Main Avenue and Western Avenue, near the College of Saint Rose. Police said the officer was conducting a traffic stop when he was shot by the suspect. The two exchanged fire. The suspect is now deceased, according to Hawkins. According to police, the officer attempted to stop a car for speeding, but he was unable to successfully stop the driver. Dash camera video from police shows the chase between the officer and the suspect. A short time later, the officer allegedly saw the car parked and attempted again to make contact with the driver, but as he approached the vehicle, he was “ambushed” from behind the vehicle. A statement from Mayor Kathy Sheehan states the officer was attempting to stop a vehicle for traffic violations when he was “ambushed in an act of depraved gun violence.” Lee Kindlon, local defense attorney and Albany DA candidate, also shared his thoughts in a statement Wednesday. This morning’s shooting of one of Albany’s finest, a member of APD, is, as Mayor Sheehan said, ‘an act of depraved gun violence.' We must do more to stem the flow of guns into Albany because it makes everybody less safe. My prayers are with the officer for a speedy recovery, and hope the family of the deceased finds comfort as they grieve. Body camera footage from police shows the moment the officer left the vehicle to conduct the traffic stop and was fired upon. In the video, you can hear the officer radioing "Shots fired."

The Maryland Attorney General's Office released body camera video from one man's fatal encounter with Anne Arundel County Police. The video begins as officers order two men out of a vehicle to investigate a call about guns and drugs in the 900 block of Waugh Chapel Way in Gambrils on October 29, 2023. At one point, one man, identified as Lavaughn Coleman, 21, takes off running as one officer tries to handcuff him. The video shows that during the brief chase, one officer, identified as Cpl. A Stallings, orders Coleman to stop, or he will use his Taser. Moments later, the video shows Cpl. Stallings use his Taser. Coleman is hit, and falls to the ground. The officers place Coleman in handcuffs, but during the arrest, Coleman can be heard apparently having difficulty breathing. Blood can be seen on the ground where he fell. After Coleman is placed in handcuffs, officers call for help from the fire department, get a medical kit from their vehicle, and ask a bystander to call 911. Coleman died on December 15, 2023. The second officer involved in the incident was also wearing a body camera, but the video shows the camera being knocked off the officer just as the chase begins.

A family in Hillsborough County said their 17-year-old son is alive after an AED was used to save his life after he collapsed during track practice. Ansel Laureano, 17, collapsed on the track at Leto High School during practice last week. One of the track coaches said their practice started out like every other practice. "Ansel was in good spirits," Lauren Palek, the girls track coach at Leto High School, said. "We did a warm-up mile, and he was joking about his mile time. Regular Monday." READ: Multiple RVs destroyed in early morning fire at dealership in Dover After one of their first training exercises, Palek said Laureano suddenly collapsed when he reached the finish line. "He just dropped," Palek said. As a three-sport athlete and starter on the soccer team, Laureano never expected something like this to happen. "It doesn’t even seem real, because I do this every day," Laureano said. "It’s my thing." Palek said she was the only coach on the field at the time, so she raced over to Laureano, while she called the principal’s office and got on the phone with 911. "It almost looked like he was having a seizure, to be honest," she said. "So when I was talking to the 911 operator, and we were checking his vitals, even though he was still kind of moving, we could tell he wasn’t breathing. So then, she instructed me to start CPR." Assistant Principal Scott Hazlett heard the call on the radio about a student who had collapsed, so he grabbed the AED and raced down to the track. "When I got to the track, and you’re looking, it’s almost surreal," Hazlett said. Within minutes, Hillsborough County Deputy Deena Biland got to the school to help. When she arrived, the student was already hooked up to an AED and had received an initial shock, according to HCSO. She began CPR until Hillsborough County Fire Rescue arrived and administered a second shock from their AED. The student regained a pulse and was taken to St. Joseph's Main Hospital.

The Berkshire County District Attorney’s office is declining to file charges against the state trooper who shot and killed an armed man in Hancock, earlier this month. At a press conference Friday afternoon, the District Attorney’s office says the investigation will be closed upon release of the final autopsy report. Saturday, September 9. It’s just before 7AM on Richmond Road, Hancock, Mass. This was the house where Berkshire County DA Timothy Shugrue says Phillip Henault placed a fictitious 9-1-1 about a domestic incident to lure police to his residence… so they could kill him. FROM 9-1-1 Call: HENAULT TO OPERATOR: “My brother came at me with two knives, and I’m locked in the bathroom. Can you send somebody right away?” From body cam video: Trooper: “Hello?” Henault: “I’m right here” In the video, Massachusetts state trooper William Munch enters the garage door where Henault is standing with two butcher knives. The trooper orders Henault to drop the weapon. He advances on the trooper from the garage onto the front lawn. The trooper fires at Henault asking him to stop moving. The suspect then got up and continued to advance toward Trooper Munch until finally shooting Henault in his torso and lower abdomen. “There were no other objectively reasonable means that the trooper could’ve employed at the time in order to effectively protect himself. And anyone that was in the home or the public. By virtue of his duties as a police officer, the trooper did not have the option or obligation to run away from Mr. Henault” said DA Sugrue. After performing life-saving measures … Henault died on the scene. “This report finds that the decision of the trooper to fire his weapon at Mr Henault under these foregoing circumstances, constitutes the lawful and reasonable exercise of self-defense in the defense of others. Therefore, criminal charges are not warranted, and this investigation is closed, pending the official autopsy report” said the District Attorney.

0:00 - First body cam 18:29 - Arrest body cam ----- Rhode Island state Sen. Joshua Miller (D-Cranston, Providence), was arrested Thursday after Cranston police said he vandalized a man's SUV with a "Biden Sucks" bumper sticker. Miller was charged with vandalism/malicious injury to property after police said he keyed the other man's SUV around 3:30 p.m. in the Garden City Center parking lot. The SUV's owner and passenger told police they were walking back to their car when they heard a scratching noise and saw Miller with a key in his hand. Police said the SUV owner noticed a long scratch on the vehicle's door, so the man asked Miller if he had keyed his car. Miller denied it and walked away, according to police. About two hours after the SUV owner filed a police report, officers found Miller and questioned him about the incident. According to police, Miller denied damaging the vehicle and said the man threatened him verbally. According to police, Miller also told the officer who stopped him that he had recently been stalked and threatened by "gun nuts." Police said Miller believed the SUV driver may have recognized hi as a state senator and threatened him for that reason. Miller told the officers to call Police Chief Michael Winquist. Winquist was aware of the threats and was patrolling near Miller's home but said the state senator never reported any threats. Later on, police reviewed Garden City Center security video and said Miller was seen next to the damaged vehicle. Police said they confronted Miller with the new evidence, and he admitted to keying the SUV. Miller said he damaged the SUV because the owner "yelled at him" and "dared him" to do it, according to police. Miller was arraigned by a justice of the peace and was released on $1,000 personal recognizance. He is scheduled to be at Third District Court in Warwick for a re-arraignment on July 18. "Nobody is above the law, including those who make and enforce the laws," Winquist said. "The officers who handled this investigation did so with fairness, integrity, and without preferential treatment. I would expect no less from the fine men and women of the Cranston Police Department."

The shooting happened on Jan. 5 at a car dealership near 87th Avenue and Bell Road in Peoria. Detectives from the Phoenix police Fugitive Apprehension and Investigations Detail were arresting 30-year-old Junior Reyes, who was wanted on a felony warrant, being a prohibited possessor and assaulting the police. According to police, the suspect pulled out a semi-automatic handgun and exchanged gunfire with the officers. Three detectives fired their guns, while one used a less lethal foam projectile launcher. Body-cam footage from a detective, who used a 37mm less lethal “launcher” that shoots foam balls, shows the detective running to Reyes, saying, “Hands up!” Reyes then pulls out a gun and starts shooting at the detective, police said. The detective then runs away into a nearby building. He was shot and was taken to the hospital but was released later that day. Additional body-cam video from three detectives who fired their guns shows what happened during the shooting. Each detective approached Reyes from a different angle. One of the detectives gets out of his vehicle, “Hey, Reyes, it’s Phoenix police, hands up!” he says as he points a gun at Reyes. Multiple gunshots are heard as he is running. Reyes is seen running toward the officers, pointing a gun at them and firing. Another angle shows an officer running up to Reyes from behind a building and shooting him before falling to the ground. “I’m good, I’m good,” he says as he gets up. The officers fire their handguns until Reyes is shot and falls to the ground. “Suspect’s down,” one of the officers says as he approaches Reyes and handcuffs him. Reyes was taken to a hospital, where he died. Police say they recovered the handgun used by Reyes at the scene.

Body camera footage released Thursday by Buffalo police, although jerky and hard to see at times, shows a tense police call in which two police officers could be heard yelling commands as they ran through open lots Friday and eventually shot a man suspected of fatally shooting someone just minutes earlier. "Put the gun down!" they yell repeatedly in the video. "You're going to get shot!" Both of the officers' videos show them with their guns drawn and then appear to show them firing repeatedly as a suspect tumbles to the ground. Video shows the officers running to Nakeem Haynes, 27, of Buffalo, and the video then stops to show the Glock on the ground. The video picked up the sound of one of the officers kicking the gun away from Haynes' reach. Police officials identified the officers as Jake Michienzi and Hao Tran – and both had happened upon an earlier shooting in progress at 1057 Broadway. With their suspect wounded, Tran yelled for a first aid kit and ran to two police cars that pulled up. A voice on the video can be heard saying: "He shot at us. He also shot someone at Domino's." Tran can be seen opening a medical kit. Haynes rolls over on his own at one point. He is visibly wounded, with what appears to be blood on his chest. "Where are you hit dude?" one of the officers asks. "Get that gun," somebody yells about the Glock. Michienzi then zips open Haynes' jacket, but his injuries are blurred in the video. Police officials said today that the two officers fired 21 shots at Haynes from the time Haynes reportedly fired at close range into the windshield of their patrol car to the end of the foot chase. Haynes, who remains at Erie County Medical Center, has been charged with first-degree attempted murder. Tran and Michienzi were both placed on administrative leave, which is department policy for officers involved in shootings. Haynes is suspected of having fatally shot another man on Broadway minutes before, then shooting at Tran and Michienzi through the windshield of their patrol car. There was no video of the officers being shot at. The video released Thursday runs 12 minutes and 37 seconds, and it includes footage from four police officers who were involved, including the two officers who fired their weapons, as well as maps and descriptions of the events that took place. It also includes photos of the bullet hole in the middle of the police car windshield, an apparent bullet hole in one of the officer's holsters and the Glock handgun that police said that Haynes was carrying. The series of events began at about 7:15 p.m. when two patrol officers, identified as Stephen Clapp and Joshua Aponte, were responding to an unrelated situation at the Aldi at 998 Broadway. The video explained that at the same time, two other officers – Michienzi and Tran – "happened upon a shooting in progress at 1057 Broadway." The footage from Clapp's and Aponte's body cameras show the officers in the parking lot when the sound of five gunshots can be heard. The officers immediately get into their patrol car and head east on Broadway, with Aponte driving. Clapp's body cam video picks up audio from the radio calls. "Shots fired! He shot at me!" a voice can be heard screaming over the radio. In the video, Aponte and Clapp turn right onto Sears Street and stop the car in the middle of the street. "Where the (expletive) are they?" one of the officers can be heard saying. Then, more gun shots are heard. Clapp runs toward the entrance of a laundromat toward someone. The image of the person is blurred. He calls for an ambulance: "Get ADI rolling here. We got one down here." That victim would later be identified as Atlas Johnson, 63, of Buffalo, who died of his injuries. Aponte's body cam shows that while Clapp attends to the injured man, he runs down Sears as the gun shots continue. "Get in the house," he can be heard yelling to someone as he runs down the street. "Get in the house," he says to another person. Video shows Aponte running through a parking lot, which, according to the map on the video, is located between Sears and Playter streets. "Yo! Slow down," he yells to a car as he approaches Michienzi and Tran, who are standing next to the Haynes, who is lying face down on the ground. "He's shot," an officer is heard saying. "You're shot?" another officer asks. "No, he's shot," someone clarifies. Aponte yells to a bystander: "Somebody grab water. Grab water and a towel!" A woman yells to someone else: "Get water and a towel." Michienzi can be seen in the video claiming Haynes shot at him and Tran. "He (expletive) shot at us," he says, and feels around his chest. "I don't know if he hit me." There was some confusion about the location of the incident. At first, the officers said they were on Kent Street, but it turned out they were on Playter. The footage from Tran and Michienzi began just after they were shot at and had exited their vehicle. "I believe that the actions that the officers took were within the confines of the law and within the confines of department policy," in terms of the use of deadly physical force, Buffalo Police Comissioner Joseph Gramaglia said at a news conference Thursday. There is no body-cam footage of the portion where the suspect reportedly fired at police because the officers did not have their cameras activated at that time, Gramaglia said. The officers were on patrol and not on an active call when they came across the initial shooting in front of the laundromat. Officers only activate their cameras when on a call, the commissioner said. They activated their cameras during the pursuit. They are required to turn them on as soon as it is "safe to do so," Gramaglia said. The body cameras are not designed to be recording throughout an entire 10-hour shift, he added. The batteries wouldn't last the whole shift, he said. Gramaglia said Johnson, the man killed in front of the laundromat, was killed "in cold blood," and called him "an innocent man."

A woman who officers say was attacking a man with a knife was shot by police in Koreatown late Wednesday night. An assault with a deadly weapon incident was reported in the 300 block of Kenmore Avenue around 11 p.m. “Arriving officers saw a woman attacking a man with a knife and an Officer Involved Shooting occurred,” the Los Angeles Police Department tweeted Thursday morning. LAPD Lt. Letisia Ruiz said officers responded with force because someone’s life was in danger. “The goal is to preserve life, so officers … stopped the suspect from possibly, you know, killing this individual,” Ruiz said. The suspect, who is in her 20s, was struck by the gunfire and taken into custody. She was taken to a local hospital in stable condition. Video showed a woman arguing with officers at the scene as she was being detained. The victim sustained minor cuts and was treated and released at the scene. The relationship between the victim and the suspect, and the motive for the altercation, was unknown, police said. Investigators did find a knife at the scene and recovered it for evidence. No officers were injured during the incident.

A man is in custody after leading North Olmsted police on a chase near Great Northern mall that led to him losing control of his vehicle with his one-year-old child in the back seat. The incident took place on Sunday, Feb. 18 at approximately 5:27 p.m. when a North Olmsted police officer attempted to pull over a Chrysler PT Cruiser for a license plate/break light violation on Brookpark Road. The driver of the vehicle, 30-year-old Antoine L. Lindsey, then attempted to evade police and continued to drive east on Brookpark Road. Just before the suspect reached Clague Road, he lost control of his vehicle, causing it to roll over. Lindsey was ejected from the vehicle in the crash. When officers checked on Lindsey's injuries, they found a child in the back seat of his vehicle, still strapped into a car seat. Police say the child did not appear injured, but was taken to a nearby hospital out of caution. Lindsey was also taken to a nearby hospital for non-life-threatening injuries. During an initial investigation of the incident, Lindsey was found to have a suspended driver's license and was illegally in possession of a firearm. Lindsay was charged with the following: * Failure to comply with police signal * Having weapons under disability * Endangering children

Dramatic new body worn camera footage shows the moment a Doral Police officer traded gunfire with a suspect who ended up dead during a daytime shootout over two years ago. The footage shows the deadly Oct. 22, 2021 encounter that left 25-year-old suspect Yordany Rodriguez Perez dead and two officers hospitalized. Officials said the incident began with a dispute between Rodriguez Perez and another man that led to Rodriguez Perez chasing and shooting at the other man. When officers responded, Rodriguez Perez had lost control of his car and crashed into a tree in the area of Northwest 25th Street and 92nd Avenue. As two officers approached his car with guns drawn, Rodriguez Perez opened fire on them, officials said. The body worn camera footage released Tuesday shows a third officer, Daniel Vilarchao, arriving in his marked Doral Police car. He starts to get out and is immediately met with gunfire from Rodriguez Perez, so he returns fire. The video shows Vilarchao firing through the windshield, unloading his pistol from inside the car as rounds are seen entering the vehicle. At one point, Vilarchaos hit and starts bleeding, and drops of blood can be seen dripping down in the video. Vilarchao manages to reload the weapon, gets out of the car and once again empties the handgun at the suspect. His hands are seen covered in blood as he uses his radio and then reloads his weapon again. Officials said Rodriguez Perez ran to the parking lot of a nearby business still armed, and that Vilarchao and another officer continued to shoot at him until he was struck and fell to the ground. Rodriguez Perez died from his injuries. Vilarchao suffered an injury to his face and had to undergo surgery but made a full recovery. Officer Johnny Beautelus was shot in the arm, while a bystander who was in a delivery truck was hit in the leg by a bullet. Vilarchao, Beautelus and the third officer involved, Raffaello Cervera, were later named "Officers of the Year" by the South Florida Police Benevolent Association. In a memo released in November 2023, the State Attorney's Office concluded that the officers' actions in the shooting was justified.

The Mt. Shasta Police Department has released the body cam footage of an officer-involved shooting that resulted in one person dead on Christmas Day. The shooting happened on Dec. 25 of 2023 on an Amtrak train in Mt. Shasta. The police department said upon completion of the investigation, it will be turned over to DOJ's Special Prosecutions Section within the Criminal Law Division for independent review. An altercation between Officer Jeremiah Capurro and Nicholas Detweiler led to shots being fired by Capurro, police said. They said Capurro shot and killed Detweiler and an assisting crew member was also inadvertently hit by gunfire. Following the incident, Capurro sustained a moderate concussion due to blunt force trauma and facial injuries because of the altercation and was treated at a local hospital, police said.

A violent confrontation between a Tucson SWAT team and a wanted individual, as reported by the Pima County Regional Critical Incident Team, resulted in the suspect taking his own life after firing hundreds of rounds on March 10. At about 9:45 a.m., Tucson police were following up on an investigation of 38-year-old Jesus Mendivil regarding a recent report of domestic violence, according to the team of investigators spearheaded by Pima County Sheriff's Department and Oro Valley Police. Tucson police had enough probable cause to arrest Mendivil on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. According to investigators, Tucson officers observed Mendivil entering a residence near Dodge Boulevard and Fort Lowell Road. They attempted to make contact with him, but Mendivil ignored their attempts for several hours. As Mendivil remained inside, the residence was evacuated, and police obtained a search warrant. Hostage negotiators were deployed over a public address system in an attempt to defuse the situation. Investigators said five hours of failed negotiation lead the Tucson SWAT team to make the decision to breach the home's front door. Mendivil responded with gunfire at law enforcement, resulting in a gunfight. Investigators stated that according to Tucson police policy, officers are permitted to discharge their firearms toward a known safe and unoccupied area to disrupt or alter the suspect's behavior while continuing to manage the threat. This tactic is exclusively authorized for use by SWAT team members with specialized training and only in extreme circumstances. This strategy was employed by SWAT to return fire, retreat from the residence, and deploy nonlethal options. Mendivil continued shooting at offices in "sustained bursts" during the deployment of nonlethal equipment, according to the investigators. The escalating situation prompted Tucson police to seek assistance from the Pima County Sheriff's Department and the Arizona Department of Public Safety to resolve the standoff. The Sheriff's Department evacuated a nearby park that was at risk due to the gunfire. SWAT teams breached the exterior wall of the house after several more hours of failed negotiations and continued gunfire from Mendivil, according to authorities. Investigators said Mendivil was inside and had an AR-15 style rifle as well as a handgun, which he pointed toward his head during a final attempt at negotiation. Mendivil shot himself before he could be detained and was taken to Banner University Medical Center, where he later died, according to authorities. No law enforcement or members of the community were injured during the standoff.

Germantown Police Officers who shot at by a suspect on the roof of a school during the evening hours of Oct. 23 will not face criminal charges in connection to the incident. During the early evening hours of Oct. 23, an individual named Kevin G. Foy — an Illinois resident who had no connection to the Germantown area — approached Kennedy Middle School. When police responded to a report of an individual in the area acting erratically, Foy used a bike rack to climb up onto the roof. Officers pursued Foy on the roof. Foy fire shots at the officers, with officers returning fire. The subject sustained injuries and first aid was rendered, but he died on the scene. “Recently, Washington County District Attorney Mark Benson issued his decision regarding the death of Kevin G. Foy, which occurred on October 23, 2023, in the Village of Germantown, Wis. The district attorney determined there will be no criminal charges for involved law enforcement,” the DOJ said in a Dec. 21 statement. The incident prompted a lockdown of after-school activities occurring at Kennedy Middle School. The suspect in the incident never entered the building, and all students inside the school were later safely reunited with their families.

Officers were dispatched to the Creekside Place Apartments on North Nelson Road on Feb. 22 on initial reports of a man, Colin Jennings, 26, cutting himself and fighting a person who called 911. The call came from a man reporting that his boyfriend was attempting to harm himself with a knife, according to a spokesperson for the Columbus Department of Public Safety. Body camera footage shows the officers approaching the entrance of the building, and then Jennings comes out, and both officers are seen with guns in their hands. One of the officers approaching Jennings is heard saying, “I’ve got lethal force.” He then yells, “Drop the knife,” to Jennings before the other officer to, “Get your taser out. Tase him. Tase him. Tase him.” WBNS reports that the spokesperson said Jennings started approaching the officers with a large knife raised in his right hand and repeatedly yelling the phrases: “Shoot me. I want to die.” The video showed officers telling Jennings to back up and drop the knife, but he continued to approach them. One officer fired their gun three times, striking Jennings at least once, while the other officer deployed his stun gun. Medics transported him to the hospital, where he later died. No officers were hurt in the incident.

At a Tuesday afternoon press conference, Woodbury County Attorney James Loomis said the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation finished its investigation of the incident that took place in the early hours of January 8. After reviewing the information, Loomis said he found their shooting of Salvador Perez-Garcia, 55, of Sioux City, was legally justified. -- A Sioux City patrol officer was parked in the casino’s parking garage at about 4 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 8. While parked, he reportedly saw a white truck ram headfirst into his patrol vehicle. Man involved in Sioux City shooting in July arrested for attempted murder The driver of the truck was 55-year-old Salvador Perez-Garcia of Sioux City, the release states. While trying to exit the parking garage, Perez-Garcia encountered other responding officers. He then allegedly drove into a second patrol vehicle and got out of the truck “swinging a length of chain with an affixed metal object.” The release says that the officers were not able to disarm him or otherwise de-escalate the situation. As Perez-Garcia allegedly kept swinging the chain and walking towards them, police shot him, killing him at the scene despite attempts to save his life after the shots were fired. The officers were put on paid administrative leave. Their names were not released. Perez-Garcia was previously involved in an alleged stand-off at a downtown apartment building in Oct. 2022. He was allegedly making threats with a firearm. --- “Upon my review of all the evidence, I conclude that the fatal shooting of Salvador Perez-Garcia by Sioux City police officers was legally justified. His violent aggression was planned and targeted at law enforcement,” Loomis said. “His attack on officers with the Sioux City Police Department placed those officer's lives in immediate danger. The use of deadly force was justified to put an end to that immediate danger.” Loomis added that no criminal charges are not warranted against the officers and that he considers the investigation closed. Police Chief Rex Mueller also spoke at the press conference, saying Perez-Garcia’s actions were deliberate. “Make no mistake, this was a deliberate and premeditated ambush on officers. Investigation by DCI and our own internal investigation revealed the suspect had a documented contempt for law enforcement. The night of the shooting, he was actively seeking the attention of law enforcement to force a confrontation.” Mueller said both officers reacted reasonably to the incident and were justified, saying the entire attack on officers was less than 17 seconds with officers giving repeated commands.