Dramatic police bodycam footage reveals the second an armed 18-year-old black man was shot and killed by police in Washington, DC, on Wednesday.
Deon Kay was shot and later pronounced useless at an area hospital.
The Metropolitan Police Division mentioned officers responded to the 200 block of Orange Avenue Southeast round 3:50 p.m. on studies of a person with a gun, in keeping with the footage launched by police Thursday.
The video reveals police pull as much as a parked car the place Kay and one other man are sitting — earlier than they each take off operating.
Kay, carrying darkish denims and a white tank high, holding the weapon in his hand as he turns and faces the cop, who shoots him as soon as within the chest.
{The teenager} falls to the bottom and is heard grunting, clutching his chest. Blood will be seen on the shirt.
“Shots fired,” the unidentified cop radios in.
The officer then begins on the lookout for the gun.
“Where is it? Where is it?” the officer is heard saying. “I don’t know, I’m looking for the gun. It’s up there … He threw it.”
The officers will be heard describing the second man within the automotive who police mentioned bought away.
“Hey, I got it. I got it,” the officer who fired the deadly shot is heard saying after allegedly discovering the gun. “This is the one that he was holding.”
