San Diego County Sheriff
Authorities have launched video footage capturing the second an officer fatally shoots a narcotics suspect at a automotive dealership close to Naval Base San Diego in California.
Footage from physique cam reveals Detective Douglas Akers from the San Diego County Sheriff’s Workplace opening hearth on suspect Gene Stewart, who had fired on the officer first from inside a parked tow truck, shattering the passenger-side window glass.
Within the footage, Akers returns hearth into the window. Stewart then emerges from the truck, hunched over, clutching his gun to his chest.
The detective fires extra pictures at Stewart, inflicting him to fall to the bottom, the place he finally died.
Authorities say the incident started when deputies pulled over a motorist for a site visitors violation. As the driving force of the white Acura stopped, Stewart jumped out of the entrance passenger seat and took off working.
The driving force and one other passenger have been detained and arrested on suspicion of drug offenses.
In the meantime, deputies searched the realm for the fleeing suspect, Stewart … and a witness reported seeing him at a close-by automotive dealership, the place he obtained into the flatbed tow truck — the location of the lethal gunfire.
Detective Akers was handled on the hospital for minor cuts from the shattered glass.