San Diego police release footage of officer’s shooting of gunman

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San Diego police on Thursday released footage of a trainee police officer’s shooting of an armed suspect after the man opened fire during a chase in City Heights last week.

The footage includes radio transmissions and audio and video from a nearby surveillance camera of the short pursuit and shooting at Shiloh Road and Rex Avenue, in a residential neighborhood just south of University Avenue.

Jesus Medina Morales, 35, was struck twice and survived the shooting. He was jailed and charged with attempted murder.

Police said Morales used a ghost gun — which have no serial numbers and are nearly impossible to trace. They said the weapon jammed after Morales fired one shot. The video that police released includes a still shot of the gun with a live round jammed in it.

The officer trainee, identified as Justin Hibbard, was not injured.

Hibbard did not have his body-worn camera turned on. The footage is from the camera worn by his field training officer, who was also part of the chase. The training officer, whom police did not identify, did not open fire.

According to police, the officers tried to pull over Morales for an obstructed license plate on his motorcycle about 5:40 p.m. Sept. 28.

Morales sped off, and made it a few blocks before hitting a dip and abandoning the motorcycle, the department said in the video. He took off running.

On the radio transmission, one of the officers describes the fleeing suspect. The officer soon says “Shots fired! Shots fired!”

The body-worn camera video shows the two officers chasing Morales, with Hibbard ahead of his trainer.

When the trainer catches up and the video is clear, Hibbard is standing on the southwest corner of Rex and Shiloh, in a shooting stance and pointing his gun. Morales is across the street, on the ground on the northwest corner.

The two officers approach, guns drawn. The training officer pulls the wounded man’s arm, to roll him to his stomach. The man moans in pain as they handcuff him.

Other officers arrive, and the training officer walks to the northeast corner where a black handgun lies in the street.

The department also provided a freeze frame from the training officer’s camera as he ran to catch up with Hibbard and the suspect. Police said the image shows Morales facing the officer and firing his gun as Hibbard dives out of the way. The image is blurry and difficult to decipher.

The footage provided by police also includes surveillance video from the parking lot of the department’s Multicultural Community Relations substation, a block north of the shooting scene. As officers get into their cars to go to the chase scene, the sound of one gunshot can be heard, followed two seconds later by seven shots in rapid succession.