Oklahoma City Police release body cam footage of officer involved shooting which leaves suspect dead

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Oklahoma City Police have launched graphic body cam footage of an officer involved shooting which left the suspect dead.  

It all began when police had been referred to as to a house in Southwest Oklahoma City relating to a person threatening individuals with a knife earlier this month. He had stabbed a random particular person within the space. 

When officers arrived on scene, they had been confronted by a person in entrance of the residence wielding a knife. Shortly after, issues took a flip.  

Police arrived on scene asking the suspect, Sergio Gruver, a number of occasions to place down the knife. 

“Three officers arrived on scene together and confronted the armed suspect, who immediately began walking toward them. The officers gave verbal commands to drop the knife, which he refused and continued to approach the officers and citizens who were both outside and inside the vehicle,” mentioned Captain Valerie Littlejohn, Oklahoma City Police, media relations workplace.  

Two officers tried to create distance as one other officer went round to the aspect of the armed man between two automobiles to make use of his taser.  

“The officer deployed his Taser twice, which had no effect on the suspect,” mentioned Littlejohn.  

After they tazed him for a second time, the suspect aggressively turned with the knife and started going in direction of the officer with the taser whereas additionally attempting to tear away the tasing wires.  

“The two officers discharged their firearms when they saw the suspect aggressively turned and advanced toward the other officer,” mentioned Littlejohn.  

Officers instantly began performing lifesaving efforts and he was transported to an space hospital the place he died from accidents.  

It was later realized that previous to officers’ arrival, the suspect stabbed somebody randomly close to the residence.  

Further, he tried to assault his members of the family with the knife whereas they had been inside of a locked automobile. responding officers pulled as much as the scene. 

“The armed man was trying to stab through a car window which was occupied, and the people inside had locked the doors prior to the officer’s arrival,” mentioned Littlejohn.  

None of the officers had been injured and the sufferer who was stabbed was handled and launched from an space hospital.  

The two officers who fired their weapons had been positioned on routine administrative go away pending the end result of the investigation.  

Police mentioned the investigation remains to be in its early phases.