San Joaquin deputies fatally shot an armed man when he pointed at gun at deputies from the rooftop

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Stockton, CA - The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office released bodycam video Wednesday showing the series of events leading to deputies shooting and killing Gregory Fitzgerald last month, an incident now being investigated by the California Department of Justice.

Around 9 a.m. April 7, a deputy was dispatched to East Side Community Park for a complaint of illegal dumping.

The video shows the responding deputy going up to two people outside the vehicle. The deputy can be heard asking them if they’re aware the vehicle has an expired registration and what kind of gun was visible in the back.

The two people, a woman and Gregory Fitzgerald, say they’re aware the registration is expired. The woman says she’ll give the deputy her ID and the ticket she was issued recently for expired registration.

At that point, Fitzgerald is asked for an ID, which he says he doesn’t have on him at the time. He told the deputy he was trying to go to work and needed to go to Merced with his cousin.

The deputy can be heard telling Fitzgerald he’s going to be detained, and Fitzgerald begins running away, telling the deputy to shoot him.

Two more deputies arrive, and Fitzgerald breaks away from being tased. He reportedly told deputies he had a gun and would shoot them.

Fitzgerald was later found standing on the rooftop of a home on Ardelle Avenue, where law enforcement tried to negotiate with him for two hours prior to the shooting.

The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office says around that time, investigators found Fitzgerald had an active warrant out of Missouri. They say he pleaded guilty to second-degree assault in 2015 after beating and setting another man on fire. He was sentenced to 15 years, served eight and was on parole with an active warrant.

In the video, he tells deputies and SWAT he has no intention of returning to prison, even if it means he must die. He continues to threaten deputies, saying, “I’m not going home, so one of you are not going home.”

He eventually took a seated stance and raised his arm holding an object as if to shoot, at which time a SWAT member on a nearby rooftop and two deputies on the ground fire at the same time.

Fitzgerald was hit and taken to the hospital, where he later died from his injuries.