The sequence is dramatic and the The video shows the exact moment in which a young robbery suspect tried to shoot an Ohio police officer at point-blank range in a Walmart. The images were captured by a body camera.
The incident reportedly occurred in Guangzhou last Thursday after a man and a woman were arrested for allegedly stealing items from the store.
The couple was taken to a safe roomwhere a police officer is seen interrogating and searching the identified suspect Shane Newman, 21 years oldspread FOX 8.
Video from the officer’s body camera, mounted on a table, initially showed a quiet scene with a Walmart employee handing the officer a pen and paper while the two suspects sat on a bench.
Suddenly Newman He turned around, pulled out a gun and tried to shoot him. to collect as the woman screamed, “No, no, no!” At that moment a crack was heard as the defendant apparently pulled the trigger.
The Walmart worker immediately jumped on Newman in an attempt to restrain him, but Newman raised the gun again and tried to fire a second time, and another click was heard, according to the video.
The worker then knocked the gun out of Newman’s hand while the officer pulled out his gun and yelled, “Back! Back!”
The agent then took control and held Newman on the ground until backup arrived. Both suspects were arrested.
According to body camera footage, the officer told arriving officers about Newman: “He took out the gun, pointed it at my head and pulled the trigger”… but the gun didn’t fire.
He also added that he pulled out his own gun and shot Newman, but He was afraid of hitting the Walmart employee as the worker struggled to disarm the suspect.
He also admitted that the gun hidden in Newman’s purse was not found during the initial search. And that they warned him seconds before the attack that he had an active arrest warrant and was considered “armed and dangerous,” he says. The New York Post.
Newman was Charged with attempted murder and felonious assault on a police officercourt documents show.
The woman, identified as Katerina Jeffrey was charged with complicity in a robbery and possession of weapons due to possession of ammunition.
Before violence occurred, the officer asked Newman if he had anything on him as part of the search. Worse, the young man only mentioned a cell phone and then voluntarily handed over a small container from his pocket, which investigators believe was inside illegal drugsaccordingly FOX 8.
“Are we going to jail?” Jeffrey asked the police officer. “No, unless something crazy happens,” the officer replied, continuing the sequence before the terrifying exit.
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