SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — San Diego Police have released bodycam footage of a deadly officer-involved shooting that happened in late September near a San Diego elementary school. The Department of Justice has taken over the investigation after it was discovered that the man had a replica firearm and not a real one.
The deadly shooting happened on Sept. 23 in the 5100 block of Orange Avenue in City Heights after Fay Elementary School staff called police at 6:30 a.m. to report a man that appeared to be homeless and armed with a firearm and knife who was on school grounds while children were arriving at school. The caller said he tried to get the man to leave the area, but he appeared not to understand him.
San Diego police fatally shoot armed suspect near elementary school
The campus was placed on lockdown and police responded.
Watch the bodycam footage released on Oct. 23 by the San Diego Police Department here…