Seven police officers fatally shot at a man pointing a BB gun at them in San Diego.
According to San Diego police, two women were driving near the City Heights neighborhood at about 4 p.m. when they said a man with a handgun confronted them. The women told police the man"manipulated the slide as if he was loading the gun and pointed it at them." The women drove away and called 911, police said.Officers arrived at the scene and detained two people, but the women later said the suspects were not the man they had seen.
The body camera video picks up with the officer passing by a group of officers holding down two suspects on a sidewalk, as a woman in a nearby car yells,"no! over there!" The officer jogs down a residential street and locates a man in a black t-shirt. Several officers tell the man to get down on the ground. The man does not get down, and the officer takes out his firearm. The man drops the gun. From across the street, officers repeatedly tell the man not to touch the gun.After about two minutes, the man picks up the gun and points it at the officers.At least 20 rounds can be heard firing in the video, and the man falls to the ground.
According to police, the man was still moving and pointing his gun at the officers, so the officers fired again. They approached the man using a K-9, bean bag rounds and ballistic shields, police said.Police and fire-rescue personnel performed"life-saving efforts," but the man died at the scene.
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