DULUTH, Ga. — Body camera video from Duluth police shows how officers chased and tased a robbery suspect. They say it happened minutes after he and another suspect broke into a business.
“Taser. Taser Taser! Stay down… stay down,” the officer can be heard saying on the bodycam video.
A dramatic foot chase across Peachtree Industrial Boulevard ended with one suspect on the ground, and another still on the run.
It all started last Thursday morning at the Sapphire Restaurant and Bar in Duluth.
When Duluth police showed up to an alarm call at the business at around 2 a.m. They watched videos of two suspects breaking into the business.
They were after the cash inside the ATM in the restaurant.
While on patrol nearby at other ATMs, officers found one of the suspects in a back alley and started a foot chase.
Body camera video shows the suspect take off across Peachtree Industrial Boulevard before an officer fires his Taser twice.
Victor Hopkins, 32, avoided a direct hit from the Taser but he didn’t avoid criminal charges.