The person was shot to death after resisting and trying to take the resource officer’s gun, the agency said. A security guard shot and killed a man after a gun was displayed while they were talking, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office. More officers from the Gadsden Police Department showed up to assist, the statement said. The resource officer confronted a person who attempted to break into a marked Rainbow City police car near the school, according to a statement from the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency. All the exterior doors were locked and the principal contacted the school resource officer when she realized what was happening, Reddick said. Gadsden City Schools Superintendent Tony Reddick told reporters that a “potential intruder” went to several doors trying to get into Walnut Park Elementary School, where a summer literacy program was being conducted for 34 children. (AP) - A man who tried to enter an Alabama elementary school where a summer program was being held was shot to death by police Thursday morning, authorities said.
Byrd Drive near the mall were closed for several hours as more than a dozen vehicles from the West Virginia State Police and the Raleigh County Sheriff's Department were on scene.Īt about 1 p.m., vehicles with the sheriff's office could be seen leaving the scene.Īt about the same time, a tow truck hauled away a dark blue Chevrolet pickup that the man had driven into the ditch as his body, lying on the road and covered by a white sheet, was removed from the scene.GADSDEN, Ala. The man then runs toward the road as the video cuts off.Īll four lanes of Robert C. The video is less than 30 seconds and shows the man walking up to a house, opening a screen door and then attempting to enter the house, which appears locked. The person taking the video can be heard saying, "Oh my God," repeatedly just before the video ends.Ī separate video, taken earlier in the day by a home surveillance camera, has also surfaced and shows the man trying to enter a residence in Beckley. Police move forward and continue to fire at the man as he rolls to his stomach and becomes motionless. It appears that both of his arms are at his side as police begin to fire an unknown number of rounds in his direction, which causes the man to curl forward and fall to the ground. Seconds later he motions with his hand to vehicles in the southbound lanes before turning to face the police who are beginning to surround him. In the video the man's movements appear to be erratic as he goes from putting his hands in the air, to pointing his gun at his head and then repeating these motionsĪt another time soon after, he crouches, folding his arms around his head, then rises back up quickly and continues walking away from police and toward other civilian vehicles. Nearly a dozen police officers can be seen walking toward the man with guns drawn as he continues to walk down the roadway.
The video, which is just under a minute long, shows the man walking away from police and continuing in the direction of U.S. He had apparently run his car off Bradley School Road and into the ditch as police pursued. 19 off-ramp, shows the shooting.Ĭarrying a handgun, the man - slender with long hair and dressed in sweatpants, a sweatshirt and tennis shoes - leads officers through a ditch on the north side of Robert C. One of the videos, which appears to have been filmed from inside a vehicle stopped on the U.S.
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