Body-worn camera footage from last Sunday’s fatal police shooting of a man in Poppleton shows an exchange of dozens of shots between the suspect, who police say began firing while he lay on the ground, and a pair officers who had chased him there in a police cruiser.
The suspect, Nathaniel Sassafras, was killed in the shootout.
The footage, posted below, comes from the body camera of Officer Steven Foster, who was driving the police cruiser in which he and Officer Phillip Lippe chased Sassafras. They started on W. Lexington Street and ended behind a home on Vine Street. Both officers had been out on patrol as part of a crime suppression initiative in the Poe Homes area, Acting Police Commissioner Gary Tuggle said at a press conference.
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