Bodycam footage showing a delayed police response to a hostage situation at a Florida gas station last summer has prompted an internal investigation into how the officers handled the incident.
On June 1, 2024, police officers were called to a RaceTrac gas station in Sanford, Florida, where a man held a gas station employee at knifepoint in one of the bathrooms. But even though the woman was heard screaming for help, it took officers minutes after their arrival to finally enter the bathroom and subdue her captor.
WESH obtained bodycam video showing the moments when police arrived at the scene.
“You need to get in there quick! He done slit her damn neck,” a bystander is heard saying to one of the responding officers…