LMPD body cam video shows what led to a 17-year-old homicide suspect being fatally shot

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Louisville Metro Police released two body cam videos Friday morning regarding two separate police shootings in May.

After releasing video from a fatal police shooting that happened in Pleasure Ridge Park, video was released from a fatal police shooting in which a 17-year-old homicide suspect was shot

The body cam video can be viewed in its entirety in the link below.

That incident happened in the area of South Third and West Kenton streets.

The suspect later died from his injuries a little over a week later.

The LMPD spokesperson said officers waiting for the homicide suspect, a 17-year-old boy, to leave the store they found him in so as to not involve any crowd.

In the video, the suspect can be seen running away from LMPD officers as they shout commands at him to stop.

He can be seen with a gun in his hand as he continues to flee.

The officers manage to catch him and get him to the ground, and they can be heard telling him several times to let go of the gun, which they say he was holding pinned between his legs.

After several commands and attempts to get the gun away, two gunshots can be heard, one right after the other.

The LMPD spokesperson said the first shot was the suspect firing his gun in the direction of a K9 unit and its handling officer.

They said the second shot was Det. Benjamin Derby firing a single shot at the suspect, which "de-escalated the deadly force encounter."

The officers can then be seen giving first aid until emergency medical services can arrive.

The spokesperson said, "there could have been injuries to officers or citizens on this busy street."

He said the gun recovered from the suspect was the one used in the homicide, for which they were there to arrest him.

The investigation will determine if the use of deadly force was justified, but the spokesperson said the suspect "was not going to let that gun go" and that they did not know if a taser had been effective under the circumstances.

Det. Derby can be heard telling another officer to move over in case he needs to shoot.

He said he wasn't sure if a language barrier was an issue, and that would be determined as part of the ongoing investigation.