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Buffalo Police have released body cam footage of the fatal, officer-involved shooting Saturday. Edward Holmes, 58, was shot and killed by two Buffalo Police officers on Reed Street. Footage taken from officers Andrew Lewis and Joshua Slupinski shows authorities arriving on scene to find Holmes with a shotgun. After officers told him to drop the weapon, Holmes is seen firing a round, prompting two officers to return fire with 20 rounds, striking him twice and later pronouncing him dead at the scene. 2 On Your Side pressed Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia on the need for 20 rounds. “It was absolutely justified,” Gramaglia said of the use of deadly force. “I know there's some talk out there, you know, you shoot somebody in the leg, shoot somebody in the arm. You're taught to shoot center mass and shoot to end the threat.” Buffalo PD also released the 911 call, which it has confirmed came from Holmes calling the authorities on himself. He referred to himself in the third person, saying there was a man on the street with a shotgun that would shoot if he was approached. Because of this, Buffalo Police concluded it was a suicide-by-cop situation. Buffalo Common Councilwoman Leah Halton-Pope spoke out about Buffalo PD’s use of force, saying in a statement Monday: “Watching the body cam footage, the absence of de-escalation efforts by Buffalo police is glaring.” But Gramaglia stood by the actions of his officers, urging the public to understand this was not received as a mental health call. “I think they did the absolute best that they could in what the training that they have,” he said. “The way that this unfolded, this was a gun call. And this is how numerous gun calls come in.” Buffalo Police and the Attorney General’s office have launched an investigation into the shooting, and both officers have been placed on administrative leave. 2 On Your Side spoke to members of Holmes’ family Sunday night, but the family was not reachable after the body cam footage was released. “My dad ain’t never been the type of man to come out and shoot at no police,” Edward Holmes Jr. said Sunday. “I'm not hearing it. I don't buy it. That's not my dad.” "He called out for help,” the victim’s daughter, Lakia Holmes, said. “Instead of y'all coming to help him, y’all killed him.”

Albuquerque police officers shot and killed a man Thursday afternoon at the Sun Pointe Park Apartments near Montgomery and Morningside. Police identified the man as 32-year-old Mark Carlson. According to APD, he was a suspect in some recent armed robberies and had a warrant out for a parole violation related to an armed robbery conviction. APD leaders said detectives reportedly tracked him to the apartment complex, where they tried arresting him around 4 p.m. Thursday. Officers planned to barricade him inside an apartment. Then, as they were setting up a perimeter, he reportedly noticed police and took off running. “As the individual fled, several commands were given by officers to stop. At which point, and some point in time, the individual produced a firearm,” APD Deputy Chief Cecily Barker said. APD says officers tried non-lethal methods to stop the suspect before at least one officer opened fire, striking the man. Police say the suspect was taken to a hospital, where he died. According to APD, no officers were injured.

0:00 - Surveillance video 1:33 - Bodycam 1 5:27 - Bodycam 2 10:36 - Bodycam 3 14:52 - Bodycam 4 17:18 - Bodycam 5 ----- COPA released body cam video of a deadly police shooting last month in West Garfield Park. Dexter Reed, 26, was killed by Chicago police on March 21 during a traffic stop that ended with dozens of bullets fired. COPA said video footage and initial reports confirm that Reed fired first, hitting an officer. COPA said four other officers then returned fire. COPA said the officers fired approximately 96 times over 41 seconds. At a press conference Tuesday morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson expressed his condolences for Dexter Reed and said he is praying for the full recovery of the injured officer. Mayor Johnson said the shooting occurred just blocks from his own community. "It is not lost on me that both Dexter Reed and the officer could have been my students," Mayor Johnson said. Johnson said he will work with COPA and the Cook County State's Attorney's Office to provide transparency on the investigation. His family viewed the footage Monday, and they're expected to speak at noon. Reed was pulled over by five Chicago police officers along the 3800-block of West Ferdinand Street shortly after 6 p.m. on March 21. The traffic stop ended with Reed's SUV spotted with at least a dozen bullet holes. He was critically wounded and died at Mt. Sinai Hospital. Chicago police said an officer was also shot in the wrist but was in good condition and a gun was found at the scene.

0:00 - Surveillance video 0:42 - Dashcam 1 2:14 - Bodycam 1 3:18 - Dashcam 2 3:57 - Bodycam 2 5:44 - Dashcam 3 7:08 - Bodycam 3 ----- An Illinois police officer who fatally shot a suspect in Wisconsin in March will not be charged, the Rock County District Attorney's Office announced on Friday. The fatal shooting happened on Saturday morning, March 16 – one of two officer-involved shootings involving the same suspect. Authorities said the first shooting happened on Illinois Route 251, just south of the Wisconsin border, during a traffic stop of a carjacking suspect around 9:10 a.m. that morning. The suspect fled police, and a pursuit made its way into Beloit. There, an officer with the Roscoe, Illinois Police Department ultimately rammed the fleeing vehicle and fired their weapon. Video captured the impact and the gunfire. The suspect was taken to a hospital and later died. The Roscoe officer was taken to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries. While Beloit officers assisted in the chase, the police department said they were not involved in the shooting.

Late on May 20, James Wren Gardiner died after a traffic stop by Payson Police. His family has raised a series of questions about the circumstance of his death, especially since the Payson Police Department has so far not issued a public notice of the death, nor has it released any official documentation. Commander Joshua Haines of Payson explained there is an ongoing investigation, so details cannot be released. He did say the department needed to wait until the autopsy was complete before the investigation could move forward and the family’s questions answered. “I spoke with Mrs. Gardiner on Friday, and we discussed the investigation as well as the autopsy results, and I had some of our staff help walk her through the public records request process and assist her with making plans for retrieving Mr. Gardiner’s property,” said Haines in an email on July 12. The Roundup learned of Gardiner’s death on June 22 when his mother Lynda reached out via email for help. “On May 20, 2023, our son passed away at a traffic stop in Payson, Arizona (approximately 11:30 p.m. to 11:45 p.m.). We have reached out (to detectives). We have many unanswered questions and suspicions regarding our son’s tragedy. We would like to inform you of our concerns regarding this case,” wrote Lynda. The Roundup immediately requested the police report on the incident. The Roundup renewed its request for information two weeks later. Finally, on July 6, the department responded that “the request is unable to be fulfilled.” The software generated email stated that although the Payson Police Department located the requested information, “we cannot release it at this time. Due to the changes in the case…” Lynda plans to come to “Payson within the week” to meet with PPD to seek answers. She said the police have not offered a clear accounting of the incident – or the circumstances of her son’s death. “Part of the family’s confusion in the case is that we did not have the autopsy results when we were initially in contact with them,” said Haines. It’s a murky tale, with no statement after more than a month to clarify what happened. The PPD now has an automatic record request system that requires users to directly input their request for information. The system then generates an email receipt with a time and date stamp. From there, it takes prodding to find out what happened to the request.

The Austin Police Department released body camera footage on Wednesday from a deadly shooting involving officers at a bar on 6th Street in downtown Austin on December 16, 2023. It happened at around 11:52 p.m. in the 200 block of East 6th Street. APD said this started with 29-year-old Trei Michael Adriec Hernandez attempting to enter a bar with a gun, which is a violation of Texas Penal Code section 46.03, Places Weapons Prohibited. Officers were called and said when they arrived, an employee of the bar said Hernandez refused to be searched before entering the bar and told officers "He can't get in. He's got a weapon on him." Hernandez had moved to an adjacent window from the doorway. When officers approached Hernandez, he suddenly pulled the gun from his waistband and pointed it at officers and innocent bystanders. That's when Detective Christopher Bell, Senior Police Officer Thomas Childress, and Senior Police Officer Bradley Smith fired their guns at Hernandez, and Hernandez fired back. Hernandez died from multiple gunshot wounds at the scene, despite CPR efforts from officers and EMS. Three bystanders were also injured during the incident. They are expected to be okay.

IMPD released a video Thursday, detailing its version of events in which one man was killed, and five more people were injured, including an off-duty IMPD officer, in a shooting on the east side of Indianapolis in March. IMPD said two off-duty officers – in full uniform – were working security at a bar and restaurant in the 9400 block of East Washington Street, near North Mitthoefer Road, around 1:30 a.m. Police said a fight happened inside 11:11 Bar & Grille, and some people were told to leave the business. According to police, 37-year-old Dominique Lamont Durham Sr. got outside and started shooting from the parking lot in the direction of Officers Barron and Cain and other people outside 11:11 Bar & Grill. The video shows Cain get out of his patrol car and shoot toward Durham. More gunshots are heard, and police said Durham shot Cain in the right thigh. Bodycam video then shows Cain fall to the ground, get back up, and take cover behind a column. Barron's bodycam video then shows him shoot toward Durham after gunshots are heard. Barron can be heard telling uninvolved people to take cover. According to IMPD, Durham shot three of the people who had gunshot wounds. IMPD said it is not known at this time if the fourth person who was shot was injured by gunfire from Durham or the officers. It is also unclear which officer's gunshots hit Durham. Those four people – two 45-year-old men, a 42-year-old man and a 33-year-old woman – were taken to hospitals for non-life-threatening injuries. Fellow IMPD officers transported Cain to a hospital. According to IMPD, Cain's condition was said to be stable, and he was released from the hospital the same day. According to IMPD, a friend took Durham to Community East Hospital after he was shot twice. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. "We're sorry that someone lost their life here tonight. I'm also very happy that our officer did not sustain any significant injuries, although we know that there's a long road ahead for him as he deals with the emotional impact of this situation," IMPD Chief Chris Bailey said shortly after the incident. "I'm proud of our response." IMPD said officers found the gun Durham was using at the scene. According to IMPD, officers located 13 fired cartridges that they say came from Durham's gun.

The New York State Attorney General's Office has released body-worn camera footage from the fatal police shooting of an East Bloomfield teenager last fall. New York State Police Trooper Adam Latulipe shot and killed an unidentified 17-year-old male outside of a home on State Route 64 on Nov. 15. State police said the teen charged at a trooper with a knife in hand before the trooper shot him. The video footage does not show the boy within arm's length of the trooper when the officer shot him. They had been in a tussle, but then had separated several feet apart. Latulipe is working his regular patrol assignment while the AG's Office investigates the fatal shooting, NYSP confirmed. The video starts with Latulipe telling someone at the East Bloomfield residence that NYSP got a tip that someone at the home was "not doing too well." He asks to speak to the teenager, who joins him on the porch of the home. Latulipe quickly tells the boy to take his right hand out of his jacket pocket. The teen then pulls out an object ― which state police said was a knife. The pair appear to tussle and fall to the ground next to the home. After they separate, the video then shows the boy running toward the trooper, and you can hear at least six shots fired. At least one struck the teen fatally. The time from when the teenager stepped onto the porch to when the last shot was fired was less than 18 seconds. Immediately following the shooting, an adult emerged from the home and asked the trooper three times what he shot the boy with. The trooper kept his gun pointed at the teen. "He tried to stab me," the cop told them. The family member then asked if an ambulance was needed, which prompted the trooper to call for EMS on his police radio. This was nearly 30 seconds after the last shot was fired.

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 to 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. -------------------- On Thursday, the San Antonio Police Department released surveillance video from the April 15 incident at the San Antonio Airport involving an active shooter and a Parks Police officer. The suspect, identified as 46-year-old Joe Gomez, was shot by San Antonio Park Police officer John Maines. The shots fired by Officer Maines were nonlethal. Gomez shot and killed himself after Officer Maines shot at Gomez during the shooting. Maines is an 11-year veteran with the police force. 'NOTHING SHORT OF A MIRACLE' According to the newly released video, at approximately 2:30 pm the suspect, Gomez, is seen driving against traffic on the lower level of the San Antonio Airport’s pick up and drop off area. Officer Maines was working in the A terminal in the lower level, arrival area that day and noticed Gomez driving towards him. Gomez parked his vehicle in the B terminal, is seen exiting his vehicle, and immediately opens fire towards the airport and the vehicles in the vicinity. SAPD Chief William McManus described the video to KENS 5 ahead of it's release. According to McManus, Officer Maines "puts his hands up and all of a sudden the car stops, the guy gets out, gets into a shooting stance and starts cracking off crack off rounds in all directions." Pedestrians, seen in the video, immediately begin to duck behind pillars in the terminal. Several vehicles speed off as Gomez continues to fire his weapon, a handgun, reloads and immediately fires his weapon again. Officer Maines is seen in the video running towards Gomez and ducks behind a pillar. Officer Maines fires at Gomez, striking him. Gomez then ducks into his vehicle, immediately exits, and then kneels on the ground and shoots himself in the head. The Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Officer later identified Gomez’s fatal injury as self-inflicted. Officer Maines then runs towards Gomez – who is lying on the ground after shooting himself – and puts his weapon away. Aside from someone sustaining a sprained ankle, authorities said no one else was injured in the incident, which prompted a temporary lockdown of the airport as police investigated. “The officer who stopped this saved a lot of lives,” McManus said in the hours following the incident. “This guy had a full box of ammunition, he had a .45-caliber handgun he was shooting at the direction of the terminal, at the police officer, and behind him. We were very lucky not to have a lot of people injured or killed.” McManus echoed those sentiments Thursday ahead of the video's release, saying he couldn't "overemphasize the significance of what [Officer Maines] did and stopping that shooter." "It's nothing short of a miracle that nobody was hurt. I mean, it was divine intervention, if you ask me," McManus said. Police believe Gomez was the same individual who allegedly fired several shots from the Highway 281/Loop 1604 overpass earlier in the day; the chief said he matched the description, and the shell casings at both scenes are identical. “SOMEONE YELLED, 'ACTIVE SHOOTER.'” According to SAPD, several 911 calls were made during the shooting. Audio from one of those calls was released along with the surveillance video. In it, an unidentified woman tells the responding dispatcher, “There’s a shooting at the airport. They’re at the airport. There’s someone shooting.” Witnesses KENS 5 spoke to on the day of the shooting said that people began running past TSA checkpoints yelling “Shooter! Shooter!” "It kind of looked like they were late for a flight," said Curtis Rogers, flying home to Kentucky. "Then someone yelled, 'Active shooter.' We saw people running left, and we went left." Lee Ann Yarbor flew to San Antonio from San Diego. She says a restaurant worker pulled her, her husband, and her service dog behind the shop's counter to duck and hide. "I was just hoping to God that I wasn't going to get shot," she said. "We didn't know if there were dead people down there or what was happening." Yarbor says she wasn't sure who'd been shot or what exactly happened until more than an hour after the shooting stopped. Doug Rosini, flying out on business, detailed his experience to reporters shortly after he left the building. "I saw this, heard of people running and heard somebody yell, 'Shooter, run!,' and when somebody yells, 'Shooter, run,' you run," he said. "The only thing running through my mind was getting back to my family—the thought of that not happening." Just had to evacuate from San Antonio airport bc of an active shooter inside. Heart is still racing, but glad to be safe for the moment.

0:00 - Dashcam 2:36 - Body cam 1 (Arrest) 5:58 - Body cam 2 (Arrest) 7:38 - Body cam 2 10:32 - Body cam 3 13:57 - Body cam 4 ---------- The Civilian Office of Police Accountability released body cam video and other documentation Wednesday of a 2020 incident at the Grand central (25th) District police station in which three officers were shot. Police returned fire and shot the suspect, Lovelle Jordan, in the incident on July 30, 2020. Jordan was the suspect in a carjacking the month prior. He was arrested around 9 a.m. that morning in the 4800 block of West North Avenue in the North Austin neighborhood, after police responded to reports of a suspicious vehicle, and spotted an unoccupied white Porsche that had been stolen in an armed carjacking last month, police Chief of Detectives Brendan Deenihan said at the time. As officers were processing the vehicle, Jordan walked up to the car and got in. "He walks right up to the Porsche, and he enters the Porsche, trying to drive away," Deenihan said at the time. Deenihan said the officers immediately jumped out of their squad car, and tried to pull Jordan out of the Porsche. Deenihan said Jordan struggled with police, who handcuffed him behind his back, and took him to the Grand Central District station in a marked police sport-utility vehicle with a cage in the back. Body cam video shows Jordan on the ground being handcuffed at the scene. Jordan says that he has third-degree burns on his body and complains about the handcuffs. He asks officers to handcuff him in the front rather than the back, and officers repeatedly refuse. Officers search Jordan and find his phone, money, and marijuana, but no weapon. Deenihan said officers who arrested Jordan did search him, and found money and drugs, but did not find a gun he had hidden on him. For almost four minutes, an officer drives a squad car with Jordan in custody in the back seat – unknowingly armed. In that time, Jordan someone moved his cuffs to the front, and got his hands on the gun that had been hidden against his crotch. When police arrived at the sally port at the station at 5555 W. Grand Ave. on the city's West Side, and an officer opened the door of the SUV to take Jordan inside, Jordan shot the officer in the chin. The officer fell backward, and Deenihan said that was when Jordan and other officers outside the station engaged in a shootout. Sources said between Jordan and the officers, more than 50 shots were fired. First, the officer who had been driving the the SUV transporting Jordan opened the door of vehicle, and found Jordan waiting for him. Dashcam video shows the officer fall to the ground after being shot in the face and neck. The officer managed to find cover behind the squad car. Officers nearby rushed over to help, and the police station turned into a battleground. A shootout ensued and two other officers were hit. Jordan made a run for it, and hid behind another police car, before he was shot and fell to the ground. Meanwhile, body cam video shows another officer for a 10-1 for emergency backup, yells that an officer is down and has been shot in the chest and orders Jordan to drop his weapon. This officer also fires numerous rounds. This officer repeatedly orders the suspect to show his hands, and later announces that the suspect is down, but still has his gun. A wounded officer is then seen being treated in the sally port amid a rash of commotion and calls for an ambulance. Jordan was charged with six felony counts of attempted murder, one felony count of aggravated possession of a stolen motor vehicle, two felony counts of drug possession, one felony count of illegal possession of a weapon by a felon, one felony count of being an armed habitual criminal, and two misdemeanor counts of resisting arrest. We asked how Jordan could move his hands to the front while handcuffed in such a short time. Police told us it has happened before – with suspects sliding their hands under their legs to the front while seated. At the time of the shooting, Jordan was a convicted felon on parole for gun charges, and had been on electronic monitoring until June 2020. Last month, Jordan was sentenced to 31 years in prison after pleading guilty. Shortly afterward on April 19, Jordan died at a hospital in Joliet. ---------- 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.

The North Dakota Attorney General on Thursday, Aug. 17, released police body camera video from the officer responsible for shooting and killing a gunman who ambushed Fargo police officers on July 14, neutralizing a wider community threat. Attorney General Drew Wrigley and Fargo Police Chief David Zibolski held a news conference on Thursday to make public Officer Zach Robinson's body camera video recorded during the shooting that claimed the life of one police officer and injured two others officers and a bystander. The video, played at Fargo City Hall, was prefaced with a warning that it was disturbing and graphic and that viewer discretion was advised. The three-minute video is digitally blurred "out of respect" in parts, but the audio was not edited, Wrigley said. It shows the three officers who were struck by Mohamad Barakat's rapid gunfire just seconds before they were hit, and Officer Zach Robinson's immediate response, shouting "hands up" multiple times and commanding Barakat to drop the gun at least six times. In a late July interview with The Forum, Wrigley said body camera video from Officer Jake Wallin shows Wallin unholstered his gun and nearly got a round off on the gunman, 37-year-old Mohamad Barakat, before he was shot and killed. On Thursday, Wrigley said Wallin did, in fact, fire one shot before he was struck and killed by Barakat. The shooting happened as the officers processed the scene of a routine traffic crash on 25th Street and Ninth Avenue South. The injured officers, Andrew Dotas and Tyler Hawes, and a bystander, Karlee Koswick, have since been released from the hospital and are still recovering from their injuries. On July 21, authorities revealed Barakat had been planning a much larger public attack. They said Barakat searched online for articles about mass casualty incidents and the Downtown Street Fair, suggesting to authorities he intended to open fire on thousands of people attending the event. His vehicle was loaded with three long rifles, four handguns, more than 1,800 .223-caliber bullets, three canisters filled with gasoline and two propane tanks filled with Tannerite, explosive materials used for target practice. Wrigley said body camera video from the other three officers would not be released Thursday but perhaps at a later time, out of respect and sensitivity for their families.

LAPD has released body camera video and a detailed narrative of an incident in which officers shot a man in Sylmar who was armed with a knife. The man survived, but was seriously injured and hospitalized in critical condition. The incident started the afternoon of March 13 in the 14000 block of Foothill Boulevard. Officers were called to the area on a report of a man with mental illness who was attacking family members. Police say the suspect, 29-year-old Carlos Zepeda Jr. of Los Angeles, had forced his way into an apartment and struck one of his family members with a wooden stick. Video shows officers open the apartment door and try to convince Zepeda to talk. He comes to the door and can be seen holding the stick, and then closes the door. A barricade situation then ensued for hours. SWAT officers arrived, including a negotiation team and a mental health assessment team. Eventually, SWAT officers used a chemical agent to force him out of the apartment. They say he was armed with a large kitchen knife with a blade longer than 9 inches. They say he ignored commands to put the blade down and kept advancing toward them even when they fired less-lethal projectiles. The officers then discharged their weapons multiple times, striking Zepeda. He was transported to a local hospital in critical condition. No officers were injured. The family member that was struck with the stick earlier in the day declined medical treatment. Zepeda was later arrested and booked. The District Attorney's Office filed charges of assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer, assault with a deadly weapon and five counts of resisting an executive officer. Officers seized evidence that included the kitchen knife, the wooden stick, a skateboard that he reportedly used as a shield and a tire iron he was also carrying.

The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department has released surveillance video and bodycam footage detailing the incident that led to police shooting accused carjacker Michael Barnes on March 29. Surveillance footage from the intersection of Georgetown Road and W. 56th Street shows the collision and carjacking that kick-started the incident and ended with Barnes being shot by IMPD officers on an interstate on-ramp. In public safety camera footage from the intersection, a tan-colored car driven by Barnes can be seen running a red light and cutting in front of a silver car. After being struck by the silver car, Barnes crashes into a truck waiting at the red light. Barnes then exits his vehicle and runs toward a woman who had stepped out of her Chevrolet Impala to check on Barnes. Barnes is reportedly holding a gun while exiting his vehicle and can be seen pointing the weapon at the woman. Before Barnes drives away in the stolen Impala, Barnes lets the woman quickly grab a young child out of the back seat. “He let me get the baby out of the car, but he walked up to me with a gun,” the carjacking victim can be heard telling police in bodycam footage. Officers were quickly able to locate the stolen Impala near 62nd and Cooper Road, according to IMPD. Barnes refused to stop for the officers, however, and ended up leading police on a chase through the city, where he ran multiple red lights and reached speeds of over 80 miles per hour. Barnes ended up fleeing south down Kessler, where he attempted to merge onto I-65 before his vehicle came to a sudden stop on the on-ramp. Body camera footage from when officers spoke to the carjacking victim suggests that the Impala was a push start and may have died due to Barnes not being in possession of the key fob. “I got my keys, so he’s not going to get far,” the carjacking victim can be heard telling police. Police said that after Barnes’ vehicle came to a stop, Barnes quickly exited the Impala and pointed a handgun at officers. Two officers responded by opening fire and shooting Barnes. IMPD released dashcam footage from a passing civilian that shows Barne exiting the Impala and pointing a gun at officers. After Barnes was shot by officers, police approached and provided medical aid until EMS arrived at the scene. Barnes was transported to a hospital in critical condition but ended up improving to stable condition. Police said a handgun was found lying next to Barnes as officers approached after the shooting. Barnes was found to be wanted out of Grant County on gun, drug and theft charges. He faces additional charges of unlawful possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon, a Level 4 felony; two counts of resisting law enforcement, Level 6 felonies; two counts of pointing a firearm at another, Level 6 felonies; and a misdemeanor charge of leaving the scene of an accident.

A teenage suspect was arrested for smuggling illegal aliens, including a toddler, during a high-speed pursuit and bail-out in Texas this week, authorities say. The harrowing incident unfolded on Wednesday in Webb County near the Mexican border. Texas Department of Public Safety (TxDPS) troopers attempted to pull over a suspicious sedan in a residential neighborhood when the driver began taking evasive action. The vehicle can be seen rocketing down US-83, swerving onto the shoulder to rip past a police SUV. The driver then leaves the roadway briefly to skirt stopped vehicles, then turns through a busy intersection against oncoming traffic as other motorists slam on their brakes. The suspect eventually entered another neighborhood and bailed out of the moving vehicle with his passengers still inside. He was apprehended after a brief foot chase and identified as 17-year-old Gustavo Omar Arizpe Jr., a resident of Laredo. TxDPS troopers found four illegal aliens from Mexico inside the vehicle, including a 3-year-old child. It is unclear if anyone in the car was related to the toddler. All four illegals were turned over to Border Patrol and Arizpe was charged with evading arrest and smuggling of persons.

Months after a woman was shot by a Louisville Metro Police Department officer in Valley Station, police have released the body cam footage. Kentucky State Police released body cam footage from the incident that happened on Feb. 19 in the 9100 block of Chenault Road. LMPD officers responded to the area around 5:30 p.m. about calls of a mental health complaint. Police said the woman had a known history of mental health crises and was striking her car while pointing a gun at other homes. When they arrived, they found 52-year-old Candy Basil waving a gun in the streets, police said. In the body cam footage, police can be heard commanding her to put the gun down multiple times when they arrived. Basil can be seen approaching officers when they got out of their cars at the residence. An arrest slip says that Basil was at times pointing the gun at officers as she approached them. Officer Donald Wyatt, who has been with LMPD for 19 years, fired two shots at her after less than a minute of commanding her to drop the gun. Kentucky State Police said that both rounds hit her. Following the shots, officers began giving Basil first aid while they called EMS to the scene. She was taken to UofL Hospital to receive further treatment, police said. KSP's Critical Incident Response Team is handling the investigation, which is still ongoing, they said. Basil was in court on Wednesday on wanton endangerment of a police officer and menacing charges. She is currently on house arrest.

On Wednesday, the Ada County Sheriff's Office released body camera and surveillance video detailing what led up to a Star police officer shooting and killing 38-year-old Jeremy Banach on June 15, 2022. It took nine months for the Critical Incident Task Force, led by the Boise Police Department, to investigate the shooting and for a prosecutor in another county to review that investigation and decide whether to criminally charge any of the officers involved. On Tuesday, the sheriff's office released a letter from the Valley County Prosecutor Brian Naugle publicly clearing officer Jason Woodcook, who shot Jeremy. Naugle also cleared the other two responding officers involved. The sheriff's office wanted to release the video, so the public could see what responding officers saw. This is the first time the sheriff's office has released body camera footage of a police shooting publicly. Warning: Some viewers may consider this video to be graphic. KTVB reviewed the raw footage of the shooting and can confirm there was no time edited out of the video when the screen goes black and shots are heard. The shooting happened about 1.5 hours after Jeremy's parents, Skip and Gina Banach, called dispatch saying Jeremy was trespassing. The couple wanted Jeremy to go because he was on drugs and refusing to leave. In a family statement, Skip and Gina said they called dispatch to try and get Jeremy court-mandated detox and rehabilitation. KTVB reviewed the video the sheriff's office released and the police documents explaining what happened. In the video, you can see several officers in the family's backyard talking to Jeremy and trying to get him to leave. The CITF report states Jeremy told officers he had a gun, which you cannot hear in the video. Jeremy eventually leaves the backyard and walks to the front yard. In the video, you can hear an officer who states, "Just don't reach for your gun and you're good, man. You can go." The video then shows an officer raise his gun while Jeremy appears to readjust his own gun. Jeremy then leaves the property. Skip said it was only after Jeremy left that police officers told him that his son had a gun. Skip then told the officers that Jeremy could have been carrying the gun that was stolen from his house the day before. When officers learned that Jeremy may have stolen the gun, they decided to track him down. Stealing a gun is a felony. In the video, just before 9:30 a.m., an officer finds Jeremy walking toward the Star Mercantile with the gun under his sweatshirt. Police documents state the officer said he told Jeremy to drop the gun and that he tried to grab it out of Jeremy's hands but couldn't. Two more officers than arrived, and the three of them follow Jeremy through the Star Mercantile's parking lot with their guns drawn and pointed at his back the whole time. Jeremy continues to walks through the parking lot toward a neighborhood. An officer in the video yells, "Don't make bad choices. It's gonna go real bad for you. Don't go toward those houses." "I know it's gonna go really bad," Jeremy responded. He continues to ignore the officers' commands. In the video, Jeremy then drops his sweatshirt and points the gun toward his head. Naugle said Jeremy appeared to rotate the gun 180 degrees by turning his arm and wrist counterclockwise. Naugle said the barrel of the gun was under Jeremy's hand and pointed either at or behind the back of the right side of his head. "This resulted in the gun being pointed in the general direction of a house across the street and/or Deputy Turner, who was behind and to the left of Jeremy at the time," Naugle stated. The CITF report states Woodcook fired five rounds at Jeremy, all the shots hit him, and he was killed. KTVB watched the raw video of the shooting for more clarity about what direction Jeremy pointed his gun. However, it's hard to determine where Jeremy points the gun. Naugle said the shooting was justified because, "Jeremy Banach's flight posed a real and immediate risk of death or serious injury to the deputies and/or members of the public." "Had Jeremy shot himself in the head, the bullet would have likely continued traveling across the street where there was a home not 50 feet away,' Naugle said. "Not to mention Officer Turner, who was also in, or very near, Jeremy's line of fire after he rotated the pistol in his hand."

The San Pablo Police Department released bodycam video on Friday from a police shooting that happened in September 2023. The man who was shot, 44-year-old Andre Smith, was hospitalized and placed in critical condition but later survived. Police were called to a home on the 2600 block of Dover Avenue at 1:39 p.m. on Sept. 8. The caller said that her husband was showing signs of schizophrenia. The woman’s parents and two children were in the home as well, she said. The full video published by police includes audio from the 9-1-1 call. SPPD officers arrived, and Smith refused to speak with them, police said. About an hour later, Smith’s wife again called police to say he was harassing her. In the background of the phone call, Smith can be heard threatening police. “I don’t want to live this no more,” he can be heard saying. “And I’m tired of this injustice. I don’t want to go to court. I ain’t going to court. I’d rather go after their throat. If they kill me, then they kill me. But when it’s time for them to die, I’m going to throw them into a lake of fire and torch ’em.” Police returned to the scene. Body camera video shows one officer escorting Smith’s wife and another person to safety. Smith picked up two metal poles, video shows, and police fired bean bag rounds at him. He then retreated to the side of the house. After about 16 minutes, Smith went back to the front lawn. Bodycam video shows him throwing several rocks at the group of officers, who fired bean bag rounds and deployed tasers at him. Smith was still not subdued, and he charged at an officer holding a chair and a metal pole, video shows. He swung the pole at an officer, who ducked to avoid it and tackled Smith. While this was happening, another officer shot Smith. This video is embedded at the top of the story. Smith was shot in the leg and hospitalized in critical condition. He later recovered from his injuries and was discharged. On Nov. 13, the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office charged Smith with two felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon with force likely to cause great bodily injury to a peace officer. The DA’s office is also investigating the police shooting.

New body camera footage shows deputies chasing a piece of construction equipment. The video shows deputies running after the skid-steer loader, telling the man inside to “shut it off” repeatedly. A deputy attempts to climb up the equipment to stop the man, but the suspect uses the machine to lift the deputy out of it. The suspect has been identified as Zachary Henry. Henry later gets stuck in a pond and runs from the police. Henry has been charged with assault on a peace officer and resisting arrest. He is currently not in custody, and a warrant has been issued for his arrest.

According to the Redding Police Department (RPD), the shooting occurred at 4:11 p.m. on Wednesday, April 10, near Hartnell and East Cypress avenues in Redding. Before the shooting, they say RPD Park Rangers spoke with two men allegedly trespassing on an undeveloped property just below the Jiffy Lube business on Cypress Ave. and Lowden Lane. However, police say one of the men, identified as Bailey, became agitated during the encounter and began making threats and even threw a rock at officers. After the rock throwing, the RPD says Park Rangers decided to arrest Bailey for assault with a deadly weapon. Officers then reportedly noticed Bailey holding a knife, which they then reported to other officers and dispatch for additional support. Police say Bailey then ran from the two Park Rangers east on Cypress Ave. while holding a knife in his hand. A school resource officer, reportedly filling up his cruiser at a gas station across the street, heard the call come over the radio and drove over to assist. The RPD says the officer then ordered Bailey to drop the knife, but he ignored commands and forced a violent confrontation, resulting in the officer shooting Bailey. The confrontation was not captured on the officer's body-worn camera, according to Redding Police Administration Lieutenant Tim Renault, because the camera was in "sleep mode." While in sleep mode, Lt. Renault says the camera does not actively record. "This is the first officer-involved critical incident where officers were equipped with body-worn cameras," Lt. Renault said in the department's Critical Incident Briefing Video. "Since the incident, the policy has been amended to prevent the use of 'sleep mode' while an officer's in the field. This will ensure that any future officer-involved critical incidents will be captured." The RPD says emergency aid was immediately rendered by officers, and Bailey was taken to a local hospital for gunshot wounds to his torso and right arm. He was eventually medically cleared and transported to the Shasta County Jail. A week later, on April 17, the Shasta County District Attorney's Office announced Bailey was arraigned on three counts of assault with a deadly weapon against a police officer, three counts of resisting an executive officer and three counts of exhibiting a deadly weapon to resist arrest along with various enhancements arising out of his conduct toward police.

A Connecticut police officer was brutally assaulted by a hammer-wielding man, police said. Middletown Police said authorities received a complaint about noise and broken glass on a residential street at 6:33 p.m. on Saturday, August 12. Detective Karli Travis, who directs the Middletown Police Cadet Program and serves in the patrol department, was the first officer to respond to the call. She approached the resident on foot and police said they immediately noticed the suspect, 52-year-old Winston Tate, brandishing a blunt object. In a news conference on Tuesday, Aug. 15, Middletown Police Department Chief Eric McCallister said Travis calmly asked Tate to drop the item, a metal hammer, on the ground. He refused, although the officer repeatedly insisted that Tate do so. “Could you please put that away?” Travis is heard saying quietly in body camera footage released by the Connecticut office of the Inspector General. “NO!” Tate is heard barking back. When Travis radios her colleagues for assistance, body cam footage shows Tate charging at them with a hammer. Body camera footage shows violence erupts immediately as Tate attacks the cop and the couple start hitting each other. Chief McCallister said the investigator tried to distance herself from her attacker and continued to tell the suspect to put the gavel down. Travis finally pulls out her pistol and quickly begins firing at Tate. Body camera footage shows Winston Tate pushing Detective Karli Travis to the ground. Tate is seen with a hammer and Officer Travis is seen with her pistol. (The Office of the Inspector General in Connecticut) Police said she was “fighting for her life” while Tate repeatedly hit her with a hammer. “Stop!” Travis is heard yelling as Tate continues to hit her with the metal gun. After Tate fired more shots at her attacker, she retreated to his home, authorities said. Backup officers arrived and quickly surrounded the apartment building, where Tate was immediately arrested. He was taken to the hospital where he was treated. Detective Travis was also injured in the hammer attack and taken to the hospital, but was discharged later that evening with minor injuries. Chief McCallister called her actions an “extreme act of heroism”.

The Boise Police officer that shot and killed Payton Wasson in June 2023 has been cleared by the Gooding County Prosecuting Attorney, no charges will be filed. "The facts in this case reveal that Wasson was fleeing from a suspected drug deal, grabbed toward a gun in his waistband as officers confronted him, fled from police and drew a gun as he ran, refused lawful orders to stop and drop his gun, and was running toward a crowded area when the BPD officer fired at him," prosecutor Trevor Misselding stated. The prosecutor on Friday said he came to the decision after analyzing law and reviewing video footage and the Ada County Critical Incident Task Force (CITF) investigation. Misselding found that officer C. Feldner was justified in the shooting of Wasson. The officer, "had cause to believe that Wasson, through his unlawful and potentially violent acts, was a continuing and immediate danger to law enforcement officers who were engaged in the lawful performance of their duties, and a danger to the public at large as he fled, armed, down a public street," Misselding stated. 22-year-old Payton Wasson was shot and killed on June 24, 2023. Boise Police officers investigated "a situation involving individuals and a vehicle involved in what officers believed were gang activity and/or narcotic sales." Officers identified the owner of the car as Mario Garza, who was on parole. It is unclear what happened between 1 and 2 a.m., but Boise Police Chief Ron Winegar said Garza came back to his car more than an hour later with Wasson and another person. Garza was eventually arrested after police found fentanyl pills on him. Prosecutors said Wasson and that other person left the car with a backpack and a gun shortly after they returned. Officers then started chasing Wasson. Winegar said they asked him to stop and drop the gun, which he ignored. Shortly after, Feldner shot Wasson in the head. He later died in the hospital.

The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office released new bodycam video showing the events leading up to a deputy shooting a suspect Saturday evening. The sheriff’s office said a deputy was at a 7-Eleven in Hudson when he recognized a man at an SUV as Paul Smith, a suspect in battery-by-strangulation case. According to authorities, Smith had an extensive, violent criminal history. Body cam video showed the deputy approach the vehicle and ask Smith to step out of the car. Instead, Smith got in the driver’s seat and asked what was going on. When Smith tried to put the car in drive, the deputy then grabbed onto the suspect, only for the suspect to speed off with the deputy dangling from the SUV. “Get out of the f—— car now!” the deputy shouted numerous times while tazing Smith. However, Smith kept driving and ignoring the deputy’s commands, so the deputy pulled out his gun and threatened to shoot the suspect if he did not stop the SUV. The suspect then told the deputy to get out. “Let go of me,” Smith said. “Stop the car, or you’re gonna get shot,” the deputy responded. Eventually, the deputy fired his weapon, shooting Smith in the back. “Ah! What are you doing?!” the suspect shouted. The sheriff’s office said the deputy managed to stop the car and perform first aid on the suspect, but the suspect died.

What looks like a distracted driver and his passengers are recovering after police officer body cam footage shows the driver’s car literally driving onto and launching off of a responding tow truck’s bed. The tow truck and police officers were responding to a prior accident near Valdosta, GA in Lowndes County. As the video shows, it appears to be on a nearby Georgia Highway showing multiple police officers, their cars, and emergency services responding to a prior accident. An officer’s POV is seen walking back to his vehicle when he sees a car approach, drive onto, and launch off a tow truck with a lowered bed. The car flies into the air, lands on its side, and appears to pivot and flip front first before crashing to a stop. We hear the officer call code 10-51, which is a call for another tow truck.

On September 27, 2023, around 4:02 p.m., 77th Street Division officers assigned to the Gang Enforcement Detail responded to a radio call of an “Assault with a Deadly Weapon (ADW) shooting” to the area of 73rd Street and Towne Avenue. Additional information was broadcast describing the suspect as a male black wearing all black clothing, riding a bicycle, wearing a ski mask, and armed with two shotguns. A second suspect was described as wearing a green jacket, on a bicycle, and armed with a handgun. As the officers searched the area, they observed a bicycle on the ground in the rear parking of the single-story apartment complex located on the 400 block of East 76th Street. The officers exited their vehicle to further investigate and made contact with a suspect, later identified as 36-year-old Devon Henderson, who was wearing all black clothing and a “Gator” style face mask. Henderson was holding both an assault rifle and a shotgun. The officers immediately gave Henderson numerous verbal commands to drop the weapons, but Henderson refused. The officers continued to give commands as Henderson turned away and proceeded through a walkway of the complex. The officers maintained a view of Henderson and as Henderson neared the end of the complex, he turned and looked toward the officers, while still holding the weapons, and an OIS occurred. Henderson was struck by gunfire, and he was taken into custody without further incident. The Los Angeles Fire Department personnel responded to the location and transported Henderson to a local hospital, where he was treated for the gunshot wound and is listed in stable condition.

A woman allegedly pulled out a gun on her sister during an argument Friday and set her Chatsworth home on fire, police say. It happened just before 2 p.m. at the home on 9667 Laramie Avenue. LAPD Commander Stacy Spell said officers responded to the scene after receiving reports that the woman was pointing the gun at her sister and was "actively trying to light their house on fire." When officers arrived, firefighters were already on the scene, working to put the blaze out. Footage showed flames and thick smoke coming from the home. A photographer captured on video several LAPD officers arriving to the scene and running toward the house. Police ended up confronting the woman in the backyard when gunfire erupted. The woman, who was described only as a female in her 50s, was shot by police and later died at the hospital, Spell said. It's unclear what prompted the dispute. No other injuries were reported. Crews were able to extinguish the flames in about 23 minutes, the Los Angeles Fire Department said. Police are urging anyone who might have information on the incident to come forward.