The Phoenix Police Department released a critical incident briefing containing cuts of body-camera footage depicting a Jan. 27 police shooting that left a man dead.
Sgt. Brian Bower, a department spokesman who narrates throughout the briefing, said officers received a call from a pawn shop near 19 th Avenue and Indian School Road to report an armed robbery involving a man and woman.
Responding officers found the store owner, who pointed out the man and woman walking west on Indian School Road. Police showed surveillance footage of the man smashing the glass case with what the owner described to police as a rock, and took two handguns before leaving the store.
Officers found the man and woman and ordered the man to drop the guns. Bower said officers used a “less-than-lethal” firearm that fired 40mm foam bullets on the man, who began striking a nearby truck’s window while trying to get in.
Body-camera footage shows several officers running west on Indian School Road, ordering the man to drop a gun when the man appears to point the gun at officers. Bower said four officers fired their guns at the man, and numerous gunshots can be heard in the body-camera video.