Bodycam footage released in 2 Jacksonville police shootings

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A JSO serviceman fires shots astatine Abel Navarro arsenic helium attempts to leap a fence.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office has released assemblage camera footage of 2 constabulary shootings from earlier this year.

One video shows a standoff betwixt JSO and Florida Department of Law Enforcement officers and Arnold Hagar who was changeable and killed by constabulary arsenic they served a hunt warrant in May.

Hager, 37, was considered a fugitive from St. Mary’s County, Maryland, wherever helium had precocious been indicted connected 8 counts of felony intersexual battery.

The assemblage camera footage shared by JSO starts with an serviceman who is posted down a cruiser, calling connected Hagar to surrender.

About 4 minutes into the video, a volley of shots tin beryllium heard and idiosyncratic yells “he’s down.”

JSO Chief T.K. Waters told reporters aft the incidental that constabulary had ordered Hager to travel retired of the location with his hands up erstwhile 2 shots were fired from the home. That’s erstwhile 3 JSO officers and an FDLE cause returned fire, Waters said.

Caution: Some of the images depicted successful the videos beneath whitethorn beryllium graphic successful nature. Viewer discretion advised.

Also successful May, JSO SWAT and the United States Marshals Service converged connected a location connected Rogero Road, wherever 29-year-old Abel Navarro allegedly changeable astatine officers during a standoff. Navarro, who was wanted connected robbery and kidnapping accusations, was changeable arsenic helium tried to escape.

In 1 clip, the video shows SWAT officers down a van and 1 serviceman is calling connected Navarro to travel retired with his hands up.

Around the five-minute mark, shots are fired and officers tin beryllium heard saying it came from Navarro. About 2 minutes later, Navarro tin beryllium heard yelling that helium has a hostage. A pistillate tin aboriginal beryllium seen crawling retired of the location to safety.

When JSO is asking the pistillate what benignant of weapon Navarro has, Navarro climbs retired of a model and runs towards an adjacent backyard.

As helium runs towards the backyard, officers outcry “hands, hands, hands!” and “get connected the ground!” earlier 1 serviceman fires 5 shots towards Navarro’s backmost portion helium jumps the fence.

“He’s f****** reaching! He’s reaching!” the serviceman says aft Navarro disappears implicit the fence. “He was reaching!”

The officers past determination into the backyard and enactment him successful handcuffs earlier paramedics instrumentality him away.

Navarro was successful superior but unchangeable information aft the shooting.

Navarro was charged with 8 counts of attempted execution of a instrumentality enforcement serviceman and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and is successful jailhouse awaiting trial.

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