hello everyone I'm detective Nick Rosetta public information officer for the Mesa Police Department this critical incident community briefing will provide you with information about an officer-involved shooting that occurred in our Central Division in Mesa on November 16 2009 teen you're about to see relevant video footage and learn about evidence related to this case so you can better understand what occurred 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 things could change as additional evidence is collected analyzed and reviewed this video will not draw conclusions about whether these officers acted consistent within our policy and the law until all the facts are known and the investigation is complete in this video we will be sharing our officers body-worn camera video as well as other 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 I'm assistant Chief Ed blessing the following incident happened on November 16 2009 teen it begins with two calls to 911 the first at 8:01 a.m. the second at 8:08 a.m. both callers report a man in red shorts and white t-shirt with a backpack walking into traffic on the eastbound 202 and waving his arms around it guest 9-1-1 what's the location of the emergency 202 eastbound before the Alma school off ramp there's a homeless man and but sources t-shirt the backpack that's walking and keeps coming into traffic like is you have to the right or left is up to the right DPS 9-1-1 where's your emergency so just before exit 11 under 202 eastbound there's a white male wearing a rich red shorts and a white shirt with some kind of duffel bag running along the side of the freeway he's heading westbound but he's on the eastbound lane he looks like he's okay on drugs officers in the area are unable to locate him but at 8:10 a.m. employees of Johnson Stewart materials at 1564 north Alma School Road Mesa called 9-1-1 to report that a man waving a gun around was trying to break into their vehicles when one emergency yeah my name's uh Johnson Stewart 1564 start down the school Road in Mesa and we got a guy here running around with a gun drugs please at 1564 our thumbs corrode Mesa yes and threatening anybody he's trying to break in the vehicles I mean I in the office he's got to dogsledding hand on the gun two officers in a sergeant were immediately dispatched to the scene a second call came in to 911 two minutes later at 8:13 as four additional officers were directed to the scene I ran the space down here there's a young fella walking around here uh he's got a red shirt on for shorts and a white t-shirt he's got a pistol then he's like half whacked out he's getting into big vehicles and stuff he just went over he's just calling into somebody's truck okay what's the address it's 1564 northbound law school it's the landfill yard calling from there and we do have officer Tate in that direction yeah somebody just got in he just got in a truck and fired it up and there's guys around there thirty-five there flash and headlights at us on the West End in the parking lot where is he yeah he's right in there somewhere he called into a truck I have a pistol on me Rocca here fine fine maybe the baby should be just north of my location and a bunch of the English they're not sure when our officers arrived they saw a man fitting the description they were given running towards the west side of the property you can see the suspect running and trying to get into the vehicles in this security video the suspect made his way into a white semi truck here is body-worn video as camera as officers approached that semi-truck and began communicating with the suspect here's a different angle from a second officers body worn camera as you can hear officers ordered the suspect numerous times to exit the vehicle the officer saw that the suspect had a handgun his hand and again urged him to get out of the vehicle the suspect refused to get out of the truck and pointed his gun towards officers that's when one of our officers fired his duty weapon striking the suspect here is video taken by a witness on the scene I don't know if they actually did shoot him or not they fired two shots I could hear him yelling put the gun down he just hanging in there right now officers quickly secured the scene and began administering life-saving measures on the suspect shortly after Mesa fired medical department arrived and continued resuscitation efforts which were unsuccessful and the suspect was pronounced dead at the scene the suspect was later identified as 27 year old Guerra triberg the suspects weapon a 40 caliber High Point was recovered on the step of the semi-truck the officer who fired his weapon is a six-year veteran of the Mesa Police Department thankfully no officers or innocent bystanders were injured in this incident it is always the mission of the Mesa Police Department to keep our community safe our investigation has been turned over to the Maricopa County Attorney's Office for their review thank you for your time and support and for watching this community briefing