hello everyone i'm detective brandi george with the mesa police department this critical incident community briefing will provide you with information about an officer-involved shooting that occurred here in mesa you are about to see relevant video footage and learn about evidence and police procedures related to this case so you can better understand what happened based on what we know right now mesa police department conducts thorough use of force investigations typically investigators interview multiple witnesses view numerous hours of video footage and analyze a significant amount of forensic evidence these investigations take time to complete which means things could change as additional evidence is collected analyzed and reviewed this video will not draw any conclusions about whether these officers acted consistent with our policy until all the facts are known and the investigation is complete in this video we will be sharing our officers body-worn camera videos as well as 9-1-1 calls and any other surveillance video obtained as part of this investigation we do want to warn you anytime a police officer uses force the images and information can be graphic disturbing and difficult to watch and the video may contain strong language viewer discretion is strongly advised especially for young children and sensitive viewers hello i'm detective richard encinis with the mesa police department's media relations unit on february 17th at around 2 43 a.m a mesa police officer was monitoring an avert camera system at alma school and main street in mesa while monitoring the camera he observed two men who appeared to be arguing in the parking lot of the circle k one of the men pulled out a gun here is a radio call from the officer monitoring the overt camera i got a subject of the bus stop 45 works man what's impossible 422. coffee looks like he was arguing with another male and went into the store and he's outside of waiting another bus stop is he holding the 422 is a holster no looks like he's got it in his right hand looks like he's waiting for that subject to come out of the circle the officer monitoring this incident kept the camera on the man with the gun that man later identified as ringo van winkle was standing by the bus stop talking to two people and waving a gun around after a few moments van gaal van winkle can be seen running into the intersection of elm school in maine where he stands in the middle of the street and fires several rounds from his gun in a northwest direction after firing his gun in the intersection van winkle runs back to the sidewalk and walks eastbound on main street when the first officer arrives and calls for him to get on the ground and drop his weapon this is when the officer-involved shooting occurs here is a footage of the first officer's bartending get on the ground as he arrives at the scene get on the ground drop it where's that where's he at he's down right there right there stop right here nine nine eight do not move do not move you won't get shot again let's go to your car back door stay down van winkle falls to the ground and officers put together an immediate action team to approach him and take him into custody officers continue to ask van winkle to show his hands and fire a less lethal beam bay ground [Music] put your hands up front other hand now are you going to take care of you i'm resting the bean bag as they approach he reaches his left hand toward his waistband and that's when another officer deploys a taser and the first officer fires his rifle don't move stop reaching once secured officers begin life-saving measures medical personnel arrived and took van winkle to the hospital where he was pronounced deceased during the investigation a handgun was recovered near van winkle at this point in the investigation we know that one officer fired a total of four rounds with his rifle he has been with the department for seven years and this is his second officer-involved shooting the officer that fired a less lethal beanbag round has been with the department for five years the officer that deployed his taser has been with the department for five years all the information and evidence in this case will be presented to the maricopa county attorney's office for review thank you for taking the time to watch this critical incident community briefing