SAN DIEGO (CNS) – Authorities Wednesday released video footage of last month’s fatal police shooting of a firearm-assault suspect following a road chase that began in San Ysidro and ended when the fleeing man crashed his truck in a neighborhood near Balboa Park.
Video of fatal Golden Hill police shooting released
Two members of a San Diego Police Department SWAT team opened fire on 37-year-old Enrique Cortez Jr. in the 800 block of 26th Street in Golden Hill shortly before 4 p.m. April 14, their uniform-worn cameras activated as they unleashed several fusillades of bullets into his disabled vehicle.
Cortez died at the scene.
The events that led to the deadly gunfire began about a half-hour earlier, when a 911 caller reported seeing a man, later identified as Cortez, “being kind of erratic” and carrying a tire with a rifle stashed inside it on Blanche Street, west of Interstate 805 and just north of the U.S.-Mexico border…