Disturbing bodycam footage caught the moments two Missouri police officers found a suicide victim they were called to help and callously left him as he lay dying because they were nearing the end of their work shift.
Bodycam video obtained by First Alert 4 shows former St. Louis Metropolitan Police officers Austin Fraser and Ty Warren responding to a 911 call placed by 29-year-old Urayoan Rodriguez-Rivera, who told dispatchers he planned to kill himself.
That call was placed at 6:13 p.m. on Sept. 10, 2023.
Fraser and Warren arrived at a park at 6:26 p.m., where they found Rodriguez-Rivera beneath a tree, suffering from a gunshot wound to the head. Rodriguez-Rivera is still alive and breathing at this point.
Both officers are seen on Warren’s bodycam video standing over Rodriguez-Rivera as they start discussing his transport to the hospital.
“We need to take this motherf****r then,” Warren tells Fraser.
“We aren’t taking this s***,” Fraser responds. “I get off in 30 minutes. Let’s cruise around and come back.”