Near the end of the video, Vassell can be seen approaching an intersection and pointing the object in what looks like a two-handed shooting stance.
Read More →In that incident he reportedly carried a rifle and set his car on fire. The incident didn't result in criminal charges, but Davidson was transported for a mental evaluation and the rifle and two other firearms in the home were confiscated.
Read More →While in the back of a police car, the man gained access to the front of the car where he took possession of a semiautomatic patrol rifle.
Read More →Chief Eddie Garcia said his officers ordered the man to drop the weapons 23 times. “He said, ‘Shoot me and kill me’ several times,” Garcia said.
Read More →Posted on the Douglas County SO's Facebook page, the video includes redacted footage from body cameras worn by multiple officers during the incident at the Copper Canyon Apartments in Highlands Ranch. The footage includes contact with the shooter, the sounds of numerous gun shots, and the wounded officers receiving first aid.
Read More →A DeKalb County (GA) police officer was wounded and a suspect was killed in a shootout Wednesday night in the Atlanta suburb of Decatur.
Read More →The Sacramento (CA) Police Department took steps Monday to fire an officer who fatally shot an armed, mentally ill man last July in North Sacramento, following a yearlong investigation into the controversial incident.
Read More →Surveillance video has been released in Friday’s fatal officer-involved shooting of a Tulsa, OK, man armed with knives.
Read More →Sgt. Hugh Barry — who insists he did nothing wrong — has also been suspended from the NYPD, where he had been on modified duty since the shooting. He was in court in the Bronx to face murder charges on Wednesday.
Read More →Police Commissioner William B. Evans says two officers had “no choice” but to shoot a mentally ill man who he said was waving a steak knife in his family’s South End brownstone early Sunday morning -- an account vehemently disputed by the man's mother.
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