hello I'm detective Brandy Meers with the Mesa Police Department media relations unit this critical incident Community briefing is intended to provide you with information about an officer involved shooting that occurred in Mesa we will share police procedures video 911 calls and other evidence related to this case to help you have a better understanding of what happened based on what we know right now Mesa Police Department conducts thorough use of force investigations investigators interview multiple Witnesses view numerous hours of video and analyze a significant amount of forensic evidence this video will not draw any conclusions about whether officers acted consistent with policy and the law until all the facts are known and the investigation is complete all suspects are also presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law we do need to warn you that the images and information in this video can be graphed disturbing and difficult to watch this video may also contain strong language viewer discretion is advised especially for children and sensitive viewers on December 15th 2023 just before 2:30 in the afternoon Mesa police officers were dispatched to a call regarding a family flight on South Barkley Street yes's going on there um my mom's boyfriend long stuff inside um a storage and is all his stuff and he won't get out he L himself inside a St and vandalizing our items okay so you're in a verbal ucation with your stepfather has it been physical today yes I to get physical when officers arrived the victim told officers that 27-year-old David Deus had locked himself in an attached storage shed and was starting fires the victim said she pushed open the shed door and tried to put out the fire but David was still inside and she believed he was harming himself with a knife it's 23 inside the trailer there's a 16-year-old 141 7 and a baby um and has he cut himself he Wasing when he push the out of the sh what heut himself um late late for stretching some police officers evacuated every including small children from the trailer and began trying to talk to David hi hi guys you want to get your siblings siblings yeah your siblings that are in there I have bunnies you have bunnies let me show you can one of them can the oldest one grab the baby who has maybe okay you guys want to come with me here here buddy come on let's go this way you can go stand by my cool patrol car or you can go is that mom over there you can go stand by Mom David walked out of the shed towards officers with his hands partially concealed officers repeatedly asked him to stop walking and show his hands stop there stop right now you're not going to stop stop right now David you need to stop you stop what stop moving around go ahead you take over David let me see your hands heyd David let me see your hands David continued toward officers and suddenly brought his hands forward pointing them toward officers as he went forward toward officers one officer deployed his taser simultaneously a Second Officer fired a bean bag ground while the third officer fired his duty weapon stop let me see your hand I got it I got it I think it's 62 we got a 998 subject down [Music] down uh his hands are covered up by clothing that he presented officers approached David and took him into custody he was treated at the scene and taken to the hospital officers recovered a utility knife and the cordless drill under one of the shirts let's roll that way and just double check just make sure no officers or other residents were injured in this incident and all of the evidence and information will be turned over to the Maricopa County Attorney's Office for review thank you for taking time to watch this critical incident Community briefing