Body Cam Video Released From AZ Officer Shooting Of Granbury Man
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MESA, AZ (CBSDFW.COM/AP) - A Maricopa County, Arizona court has released body cam video from the night of the deadly shooting of Daniel Shaver of Granbury by a police officer in an Arizona hotel back in January.
Mesa Police Officer Philip Brailsford faces a second degree murder charge in the shooting death.
The video from an unnamed officer's body cam shows police arriving outside Shaver's hotel room.
Here is video from the body cam on Officer Brailsford.
A judge barred the release of the video showing Officer Brailsford later shooting and killing Shaver.
Investigators said in police records and in court that the video shows Shaver on the ground outside his room as he is ordered to crawl toward officers and tearfully pleads with them not to kill him.
Officers at the scene say they believed Shaver was reaching for a gun.
No weapons were recovered from Shaver's body. Investigators found two pellet rifles in the hotel room that were later determined to be part of his pest-control job.
Brailsford was later fired for violations of departmental policies.
The video shows Brailsford and other officers getting into a hotel elevator, listening to a sergeant voice a plan for getting Shaver and a woman out of the room, and waiting for several minutes as their calls for the pair to come out went unanswered.
"Listen to my instructions or it's going to become very uncomfortable for you," one of the officers shouted.
Officers took cover in doorways as they waited for a response. Brailsford and another rifle-carrying officer at one point crouched down on their knees as they pointed their guns down the hallway.
The edited version of Brailsford's video ends when someone walks out of the room.
Video taken by another officer ends with an upset woman being taken from the hotel to wait on a bench.
Brailsford, prosecutors and Shaver's parents have argued that the video shouldn't be released to protect Brailsford's right to a fair trial.
Shaver's widow told CBS11 in January, she believed her husband was probably showing off his pellet gun when police got to the hotel.
She says he carried pellet rifles for his job in pest control.
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