Raw bodycam dashcam video Austin police motorcycle chase-shooting-carjacking in Texas Brandon Munoz

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Austin, Texas — Body cam video of the August 8, 2022 shooting incident where both an Austin Police Officer and a Texas State trooper fired their duty weapons during an attempted carjacking on Cameron Road. Police Chief Joseph Chacon said the incident began around 11 p.m. that Monday night when an officer tried to pull a motorcycle over for a traffic stop due to a missing license plate.

Dashcam video from Officer Michael Bradburn’s vehicle showed the motorcycle drive toward the right of the road, then speed up toward a turnaround on U.S. 290 on the left side. The driver got off the motorcycle partway through the turn and started running away. Officer Bradburn chased him. A nearby trooper with the Texas Department of Public Safety trooper heard the chase on the radio and turned into the parking lot soon after Bradburn ran across the road toward a shopping center.

Body cam video showed Officer Michael Bradburn chase the suspect, later identified as Brandon Munoz, into the parking lot and take cover behind cars as he moved toward the suspect. Both bodycam videos capture Officer Bradburn saying the suspect has a gun and telling him multiple times to drop it.

Surveillance footage from a nearby business shows the suspect pointing his gun toward where the officer was and maneuvering around a parked car before getting into the front passenger seat. Moments later, the car backs up. Police said in a release the suspect pointed a gun at the driver and told him to put the car into reverse and leave. Chacon said the trooper and the officer fired shots before it drove away. The body cam video showed officers yelling at the driver and directing him to get out and away from the car, and to “put it down,” in reference to a gun.

“The vehicle he tried to carjack, he took the weapon out,” Officer Bradburn says over his radio in the video. Another officer said he didn’t see a gun in the suspect’s hand, and the body camera video showed a gun on the ground outside the car where the driver placed it.

Bodycam video shows officers strategize and then get the suspect out of the car. Bradburn then disables the gun. An APD release said responders then began life-saving measures. Munoz was taken to the hospital with critical injuries and is stable as of August 22.

The driver was not hurt and neither were any law enforcement officers who responded.

Munoz faces an aggravated kidnapping charge.