The footage does not show what threat, if any, prompted the deadly force in a Northwest D.C. neighborhood last week.
Police said the sergeant fired a single shot from 35 yards after he apparently saw Kevin Hargraves-Shird with a firearm following a pursuit from an area where two juveniles had been shot in the Brightwood Park neighborhood. Police said the 31-year-old was struck in the right ear, and a gun was later recovered nearby.
Hargraves-Shird’s sister, Serena Hargraves, disputed several statements Contee and Mayor Muriel E. Bowser made Friday. She sat in the front row at the news conference and angrily confronted the city’s chief executive and law enforcement officer as news cameras rolled. Efforts to reach Otero-Camacho on Friday were not successful, and it could not be determined if he had an attorney. Contee said he had not been involved in a previous shooting. In 2020, the officer was honored with a lifesaving medal after, while off-duty, he rescued a man from a burning vehicle.
Security video from a resident also released by police Friday captured the Kia skidding to a halt and striking a curb along the park. Police said three people, including one who fit the description of the person seen hiding a gun under the vehicle back on Longfellow Street, ran from the Kia and into the park.Police said Hargraves-Shird exited the Kia and ran into the park moments before Otero-Camacho pulled up behind the now-abandoned vehicle.
On the video released Friday, police drew a circle around the object lying to the left of Hargraves-Shird and labeled it “individual’s gun.” Police showed a still close-up photo of what they said was that firearm, a Taurus 9mm semiautomatic loaded with 18 bullets.Hargraves-Shird’s sister said she believes the object was her brother’s cellphone. She said previously that the footage appeared to show that a gun was found some distance from her brother.
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