The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) on Friday released dramatic body camera footage of police shooting a 15-year-old suspect during an attempted arrest, police announced at a press conference.
The teenage suspect was injured during the arrest, NOPD Superintendent Ann Kirkpatrick said. Press conference His injuries were not caused by shots fired by NOPD officers.
The suspect is said to have been involved in 46 criminal incidents, but NOPD has not provided details about those crimes or why the suspect is still on the street. 4WWL report. (RELATED: Body camera video shows man with knife lunges at officer before being shot)
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Kirkpatrick said body camera video shows police responding to a stolen vehicle and aggravated assault call with a man asleep behind the wheel of a parked vehicle with a weapon tucked in his “easily accessible” waistband. The footage shows the suspect being found.
The video shows the boy waking up and trying to run away, nearly hitting several police officers.
In the video, an officer can be heard asking the suspect to “open the door!” “Get out of the car now!”
Another officer can be heard yelling, “I'm going to shoot you!”
4WWL reported that one officer fired his gun because he thought a vehicle was coming towards him.
According to 4WWL, body camera video shows the suspect eventually getting out of the car, being tackled to the ground by police, being arrested, and taken to the hospital for non-gunshot injuries during the arrest. It is said that
“We are extremely grateful to God Himself that no officer was shot and that a young man was fortunately taken into custody without injury from the gunfire,” Superintendent Kirkpatrick said.
Once the suspect was released from the hospital, he was taken into custody at the Juvenile Justice Intervention Center and charged with one count of resisting an officer with force, one count of possession of a firearm by a juvenile, and three counts of aggravated assault on a juvenile. was indicted for. The police officer was driving the car, 4WWL reported.
Kirkpatrick said at a news conference that the officer who fired the gun, a 27-year veteran, had been temporarily reassigned to office duty while the arrest was investigated.
She said the officer has since returned to duty, although the investigation continues.
