Houston Police released bodycam shows the fatal shooting of Sean Hammond, who was holding a gun

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The Houston Police Department on Friday released body camera video showing the Sept. 13 fatal shooting of Sean Hammond, a Houston man killed during an early-morning domestic disturbance call.

The body camera video shows officers shooting Hammond, 45, as he walked around an apartment complex while holding a handgun.

The video doesn't show Hammond brandishing the gun or firing at officers. He was shot as he walked toward a group of officers, and appeared to ignore their shouts to put the handgun down. An officer fired at Hammond a second time after he appeared to move toward his handgun while he was already on the ground and wounded.

Police were called to the apartment building in the 500 block of Greens Road at about 2:30 p.m. When they arrived, they encountered a woman standing shirtless in the apartment's parking lot. The woman told two officers that her boyfriend, Hammond, might have smoked "wet" - a slang term for a cigarette dipped in chemicals.

The video then cuts to other officers attempting to talk to Hammond while he stood on the sidewalk outside the building. Hammond, who was shirtless, appeared to be holding a smartphone in one hand and hugging a gun against his chest in the other.

Hammond told officers he was trying to get back to his car, and then that he was going back to his apartment.

Hammond put his right hand on the grip of the gun and then walked away from the first group of officers, into down an open-air hallway toward a second group of officers.

As he approached the second group, they told him to stop and tell him to drop his gun at least nine times. He continued walking, and they fired two shots at him. He screamed and rolled on the ground, then appeared to sit up and put his hands on the handgun, which had fallen to the ground.

The officers fired three more shots.

The gunshots left Hammond on his back with his legs up against the wall of the hallway.

After Hammond was shot, other officers approached him, moved the handgun away from his body and administered first aid. He was later declared dead at a hospital.

Medical examiner records, which give Hammond's first name as Shawn, indicate that died of multiple gun shot wounds. Records don't say where he was hit.