Updated: 03/22/2014 11:08 PM |
Created: 03/22/2014 10:40 PM
By: Erica Zucco, KOB Eyewitness News 4
Albuquerque police released lapel camera video Friday that showed an Albuquerque man getting hit with a stun gun, shot with live ammunition and hit with a bean bag in the foothills last Sunday after a SWAT standoff and confrontation with police.
That man, 38-year-old James Boyd, died a day later.
KOB Eyewitness News 4 looked through dispatch reports and video to determine what happened in the minutes and hours before Boyd was shot.
Reports show officers pointed guns toward 38-year-old James Boyd more than an hour after a crisis intervention team tried to talk him down from a rock in the Sandias.
“Turn around, I’m gonna pat you down,” lapel camera video shows an officer saying. “Nope, turn around! Turn around, drop the knife.”
At 6:20 p.m., the Real Time Crime Center ran the man’s name and sent officers details about him, reading:
“Subject James Boyd listed in CIT: James has an extensive criminal history of aggravated battery on peace officers in various jurisdictions, including Albuquerque. It has been reported that he is a paranoid schizophrenic. He is a transient that is known to frequent public libraries. Use extreme caution when contacting James.”
At 7:13 p.m., a report shows Boyd continued to pull a knife out of his pocket.
Ten minutes later, Boyd turned away from officers. Reports show the action disobeyed their orders.
Lapel camera video shows a K-9 officer throwing something to send the dog in. As he did it, Boyd showed two knives. That is when officers fired a flash bang to disorient him. He waved his arms, not dropping the knives.
Five seconds later, an officer fired a stun gun. Nearly a second later, six rounds of gunfire and that stun gun hit sent Boyd to the ground. Officers told Boyd to show empty hands. His response was muffled.
“Please don’t hurt me,” Boyd said on the lapel camera video. “I can’t move.”
It is unclear whether officers heard what he said. APD often reminds reporters that what officers see and hear in the field while working is different from what is recorded on a lapel camera and watched and listened to in hindsight.
Moments later, officers told him to take out his hands one more time before firing two bean bags and going in to check him.
Reports show that twenty minutes after shots were fired; Boyd rode in an ambulance to UNM Hospital.
Twenty five minutes after that, he was in surgery, listed as critical. Eleven minutes later, APD called their attorney, Kathy Levy.
Dispatch reports end the next day with Boyd in critical, unstable condition and all officers listed as OK.