Wife Wants Cop Who Shot Husband Jailed

As authorities in California continue to investigate the shooting by a police officer of an American airman who had just returned from Iraq, the victim's wife is speaking out.

The incident followed a police chase and was videotaped.

Victim Elio Carrion, 21, was unarmed.

Now, reports CBS News Correspondent Sandra Hughes, Carrion's wife is speaking out, insisting he did nothing wrong and demanding that the police officer be arrested.

"I can't sleep at night no more … knowing that we could have lost him. There's just no words for it," Mariela Carrion told Hughes.

She's still a teenager, and has been married to Elio for two years.

Mariela finds it hard to understand why her husband, who survived six months as a senior airman in Iraq, was shot three times on the streets of Chino, outside Los Angeles, late last month.

"I went to the crime scene, and I saw the car and I saw his clothes there. And at that point, I just felt, 'Oh, my god. What happened?"

Carrion was riding in a car with another man when San Bernardino Sheriff's Deputy Ivory Webb tried to pull them over. The car crashed after a short, high-speed chase.

Webb was alone and apparently pumped up as he apparently said, "Get up."

When Carrion did, he's seen in the tape being shot.

"He said," Mariela recalls, " 'The cop shot me for no reason.' I believe it. I know what that cop did. Everybody's (got) evidence to it. They've all seen the video, and they know what he did."

Why would her husband seem to be running from police?

"We haven't talked about that. … I know he wasn't doing anything wrong. For God sake, he's a military police. He knows what he should do, he know how to handle the situation. … And I know he wasn't running from the police."

If a passerby hadn't happened to take the video, asserts Mariela, "They would have let my husband bleed to death, and they would have switched that whole story around.

"I just want that man to be placed in jail," she insists. "I want justice. And I'm not giving up."

Webb is on paid administrative leave, pending the San Bernardino County Sheriff's probe of the shooting. Officials say that could take two weeks or longer.

The Carrion family says they're cooperating.

The FBI is investigating whether Elio's civil rights were violated.

He's out of the hospital, and expected to make a full recovery.