The Blendon Township Police Department will release body cam footage to show the events leading up to the fatal police shooting of Ta'Kiya Young, 21, on Aug. 24.
Blendon Township Police Department officers responded to an alleged theft when the incident took a deadly turn.
The video shows one of the officers initially approaching the black Lexus and the other abandoning the initial locked vehicle to assist his partner. The second officer is seen circling the Lexus as the first officer can be heard instructing Young to get out of the vehicle. Both officers can be heard on the video instructing her to stop multiple times and to exit the vehicle, but she appears noncompliant. The second officer also draws a gun, the video shows.
The video seems to confirm that explanation as it appears to show the officer at the front of the vehicle being dragged several feet, then firing a single shot through the windshield. Police Chief Belford previously explained the officers successfully broke into the vehicle, retrieved Young and began administering medical assistance. An emergency room doctor who happened to be at the scene also helped.One Blendon Township police officer successfully breaks open the driver window.The names of the two officers, or their ages and races, have not been released.
"She was so excited to have this little girl," Nadine Young said."She has her two little boys, but she was so fired up to have this girl. She is going to be so missed." "Following an officer involved shooting in Blendon Township last Thursday, we are currently preparing the body camera video for public release," he said.
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