Authorities have released body-cam footage of a police shooting that wounded a felon last month after he allegedly fired a pistol at a pursuing officer during a foot chase in Balboa Park.
The events that led to the non-fatal exchange of gunfire began shortly before 4 p.m. on Dec. 16, when two San Diego Police Department officers patrolling in a cruiser near Cabrillo Bridge tried to detain Allen Baker, 54, as he rode an e-bike in the 2900 block of Balboa Drive, just east of Sixth Avenue and south of Spruce Street.
When Baker failed to yield and rode off toward a wooded area, the lawmen pulled over, and one of them, Officer Kellan Taeatafa-De La Rosa, got out from behind the wheel of the police vehicle and sprinted after the suspect, his uniform-worn camera activated.
During the brief chase, Baker abandoned the bicycle and fled on foot…