Oklahoma City police release body camera footage of deadly officer-involved shooting

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OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Authorities are releasing extra data, together with physique digital camera footage, following a lethal officer-involved capturing in a northwest Oklahoma Metropolis neighborhood.

On Saturday night, Oklahoma Metropolis officers have been known as to a house close to N.W. thirty third and Roff Ave. following a home dispute.

A neighbor known as 911 to report {that a} man was appearing surprisingly outdoors the house.

Officers say they have been initially instructed that the alleged suspect, Daniel Hobbs, was in violation of a VPO.

When an officer arrived on the house, authorities say he tried to make it possible for the alleged suspect didn’t have any weapons. At that time, a wrestle ensued.

“In the course of the course of the wrestle, each the officer and the individual concerned went to the bottom. Throughout that wrestle, the officer discharged his firearm, putting the topic,” mentioned Capt. Dan Stewart, with the Oklahoma Metropolis Police Division.

Hobbs was rushed to a close-by hospital, the place he was pronounced useless.

On Thursday, officers with the Oklahoma Metropolis Police Division launched physique cam footage from the incident.

When Officer Daniel Lopez arrived on the scene, he discovered Hobbs staring on the sky.

Though it’s troublesome to make out the complete dialog, you possibly can hear Officer Lopez ask Hobbs if he had taken something that day or if he was having a psychological well being episode.

At one level, Lopez asks Hobbs if he can search him for weapons. When he asks him to place his arms behind his again, a wrestle begins.

In the course of the wrestle, the officer’s physique digital camera was turned off.

Nonetheless, a neighbor captured the wrestle and the capturing on their cellular phone.

Witnesses instructed investigators that they noticed Lopez and Hobbs struggling over the officer’s gun. Within the video launched by police, authorities spotlight that Hobbs gained management of the officer’s taser earlier than he was shot.

Officer Lopez has been positioned on administrative depart because the capturing is investigated.

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