Shocking body camera footage has emerged of a domestic violence suspect who was shot and killed by police on a busy interstate in California as he desperately clung to the door of a car he was attempting to carjack. Ta.
Lathrop police officers were dispatched to a domestic violence call involving Juan Miguel Valdez, 40, who had allegedly threatened to kill a woman he had “tried to kill” the night before. 911 audio recently shared by the Lathrop Police Department shows:.
But once police arrived, footage showed Valdez leaving in his car and leading a tense car chase that ended in a residential area and onto Interstate 5.
The incident on January 27 took an extreme turn when one of Valdez’s tires came off and panicked people tried to carjack the moving vehicle by clinging to the driver’s side window and door. Ta.
The heart-stopping video shows Valdez floating inches from the sidewalk and clinging to the door, with the officer’s tail hot.
When the car finally stopped, Valdez panicked and tried to pry open the passenger side door.
By then, multiple police cruisers had surrounded the vehicle on the shoulder of the highway.
One officer was then seen firing multiple shots at Valdez, who then fell to the ground.
“Oh, brother, why did you shoot me?” the suspect can be heard asking as officers rendered first aid at the scene.
He was then seen being restrained on the side of the road, where officers cut his shirt to reveal a bullet hole on one side of his chest.
Valdez also had a “penetrating” gunshot wound to his forearm, one of the officers can be heard telling paramedics.
“My son is a Marine, brother. With all due respect, I was just trying to get away,” Valdez lamented to the responding officers.
After being treated at a hospital, Valdez was charged with five felonies, including robbery of a motor vehicle, false imprisonment, fleeing, resisting arrest, and being on release/parole with a prior conviction.
Valdez is currently being held without bail, according to online records.
He is scheduled to return to court on April 10.
The Lathrop Police Department did not immediately respond to the Post’s request for information about when Valdez was released on parole or what his previous charges were.
