WEST HAVEN, Conn. — The Connecticut Office of the Inspector General released body camera video of a fatal police shooting that happened in West Haven on Sept. 19.
Jebrell Conley, 36, of New Haven, was killed after Connecticut State Police Sgt. Colin Richter, New Haven Police Sergeant Francisco Sanchez and New Haven Police Officer Michael Valente shot him outside the Splash Car Wash on Boston Post Road.
At 5 p.m. on Sept. 19, the New Haven Police Department Violent Crime Task Force learned that Conley, who had an outstanding arrest warrant on federal robbery and related gun charges, was driving in the area of Ella Grasso Boulevard in a black Hyundai Tucson.
Jacobson said in a report that Conley was a known member of the violent New Haven street gang Grape Street Crips and was on federal probation with an extensive criminal history.
The Task Force knew Conley from previous contact with him, according to the report.
Officers tracked Conley using his license plate to the Splash Car Wash, where they found him standing outside of the Hyundai, the report said.
As officers closed in on Conley with their vehicles, he entered the Hyundai, the report said. Body camera video shows the officers exiting their cars and surrounding the Hyundai, telling Conley to “not move” and to “get out of the vehicle.”
Conley put the Hyundai in reverse and hit a police car behind him, Jacobson said. He then allegedly pointed a gun at officers and appeared to fire a gunshot that shattered the car’s front side window.
Videos released by the Office of the Inspector General show Richter, Sanchez and Valente firing at Conley, hitting him multiple times, according to the report.
One of the officers’ body cameras shows Conley fall out of the Hyundai onto the ground, as well as a firearm. Officers provided medical treatment and “immediately radioed” for an ambulance and the New Haven Fire Department to respond, before a crew brought him to Yale New Haven Hospital where he died, Chief Jacobson said.
Via FOX 61