Philadelphia officials have released surveillance video showing new angles of the officer-involved shooting that left Alexander Spencer dead in a corner store in Fairhill last week.
An officer was shot and injured in the same incident.
Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel said around 8:45 p.m. Friday, Jan. 26, officers went into the store for a security check of the property and to search for a suspect with an active warrant.
The video shows the officers approaching a row of gaming machines where Spencer was near. The officers appear to ask Spencer and another man to show them their waistbands – and then the officers back Spencer into the machines.
The two officers and Spencer then fall onto the floor in a struggle. Gunshots can be heard in the recorded audio.
The officers’ body cameras were not recording the struggle, Bethel said.
Police identified the officer who fired his gun as Officer Raheem Hall. Authorities have yet to identify the officer who was shot.
On Friday night, Bethel said the officer engaged with Spencer and one of them got in “a scuffle with that individual.”
Spencer fired once toward the officers, striking one of them in the right thigh. The injured officer’s partner then returned fire, striking Spencer.
“I know on the night of the shooting we thought the officer was shot two times because he had four wounds. We now know that he had a double perforating wound,” Vanore said. “So he was down in a crouch during the struggle. His leg was bent, the bullet goes in his thigh, out his thigh, in the back of his calf, and out the front of his leg. So one bullet went through four times.”
Spencer, 28, was rushed to Temple University Hospital, where he later died.
The surveillance videos also show a man in the red hoodie, holding a smartphone in one hand possibly filming the incident, reach down and grab a gun before leaving the store. Police said that gun was Spencer’s.
Police on Sunday identified the man in the red hoodie as 42-year-old Jose Quinones-Mendez, who they allege took the gun used in the shooting. The Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #5 is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to Quinones-Mendez’s arrest.
The wounded police officer was released from the hospital on Monday.
The injured officer’s partner has been placed on administrative duty while the investigation is active.
Via CBS News