Footage from a San Diego police shooting that killed a 26-year-old man armed with a knife earlier this month was released Monday, showing the sudden encounter. Officers fatally shot Andrew Christian Engel on January 13 after responding to an apartment regarding a man who was reportedly suicidal and in possession of a knife.
A screenshot from body-worn camera footage from San Diego police Officer Gavin Isa shows Officer Eric Moreno standing with his weapon drawn following a fatal police shooting on Jan. 13. Footage of a San Diego police shooting that killed a 26-year-old man armed with a knife earlier this month was released Monday showing the sudden encounter.
A video, released by the San Diego Police Department on its YouTube page, begins with audio from a 911 call in which a man can be heard requesting police and an ambulance for his roommate who had harmed himself. Footage from Moreno and Isa’s body-worn cameras show the officers exiting an elevator, met by a man who can be heard saying, “It’s pretty bad. He’s, like, trying to kill himself.”After evacuating the apartment, the officers stand in a doorway.Moreno draws his firearm and can be seen aiming it at an empty doorway as Isa searches a bathroom.Isa moves back to the entrance of the apartment and asks the former occupants who are standing in the hallway about the layout of the apartment.
Footage from Isa’s camera shows the officer speaking with the occupants before Moreno can be heard reacting to Engel. Isa can be seen holding his stun gun in his right hand before shooting his firearm with his left hand around a corner.“He still has the knife in his right hand,” an officer can be heard saying.
POLICE SHOOTING BODY-CAMERA FOOTAGE SAN DIEGO FATAL SHOOTING ANDREW CHRISTIAN ENGEL
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