Bodycam video shows hours-long standoff, deadly police shooting in Phoenix

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Phoenix, AZ - Phoenix Police released edited bodycam videos on Friday that show an hours-long standoff ending when officers shot and killed a man at his north Phoenix apartment last month.

On Sept. 28, police responded to an apartment complex near 35th Avenue and Bell Road after a 911 caller told dispatchers that a military veteran, later identified as 52-year-old David Steinbach, allegedly pointed a gun at his head and fired a round inside his apartment.

After arriving on scene around 10 a.m., officers started evacuating nearby apartments while containing Steinbach inside his apartment and began trying to talk with him.

A while later, Special Assignments Unit (SAU) negotiators responded and also tried to negotiate with Steinbach before sending a drone into his apartment at about 3:45 p.m.

Drone footage shows Steinbach walking around the home with a handgun in his right hand before leaving the front door still armed.

Body-worn camera footage from an officer inside an armored vehicle moments before Steinbach left the home shows officers trying to negotiate over a megaphone.

“Understand, this is not the way we want to go. It’s not the way you want to go in the apartment,” a negotiator says.

Shortly after, police could be heard telling Steinbach to walk out the front door and to put his hands up. During these announcements, the recording officer is aiming a rifle out of the top of the armored vehicle.

“The front door is right there. This all stops when you walk through it,” the negotiator continued, “You have nothing to prove.”

Moments after Steinbach walked out the front door, officers began yelling for him to drop the gun before the recording officer fired multiple times.

Footage shows the gun lying next to Steinbach before the body camera footage ends.

SAU officers then approached Steinbach to provide first aid before he was taken by ambulance to the hospital, where he later died.