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Archive: SHOOTOUT With Armed Robbery Suspect And Police. Louisville, KY. April 24, 2018.
Archive: SHOOTOUT With Armed Robbery Suspect And Police. Louisville, KY. April 24, 2018.

Police Bodycam Videos  |  2022-03-17

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A robbery suspect fleeing from police Tuesday was shot at more than 20 times and killed by three officers and one detective from Louisville Metro Police's First Division, according to police body camera videos. The footage from three officers, played at a Wednesday news briefing, shows a brief foot ...

A robbery suspect fleeing from police Tuesday was shot at more than 20 times and killed by three officers and one detective from Louisville Metro Police's First Division, according to police body camera videos. The footage from three officers, played at a Wednesday news briefing, shows a brief foot pursuit by one officer, before other officers converge on the suspect, identified as Demonjhea Jordan, 21, of Jeffersonville, Indiana. All three, plus a detective who was not wearing a body camera, fire their weapons at the suspect in the videos, including one officer who shoots five times through his squad car's windshield. Jordan later died at University of Louisville Hospital from gunshot wounds, according to Wayne Pryse, a Jefferson County deputy coroner. Lt. Aaron Crowell of the department's public integrity unit said police believe Jordan also fired his weapon, citing "multiple sources of information" that lead them to that conclusion. He declined to specify what the sources were, how many shots were fired or who fired first. It's not clear in the body camera footage when the suspect fired his weapon, but a gun is visible between his legs when he is lying on the ground wounded. The officers were responding to a description of an armed suspect who had fled on foot from a robbery scene at a Metro PCS store in the 2600 block of West Market St. Officer Joshua Weyer located someone matching that description in the 400 block of N. 29th St. in the Portland neighborhood, about a mile from the Metro PCS store. Footage shows Weyer attempting to engage the person, later identified as Jordan, who appears to be holding an object covered by what looks like a red cloth. Seconds later, the suspect flees and the red cloth falls to the ground, but Jordan is still holding an object that police say was a handgun. Weyer appears to fire his weapon at Jordan about 17 times before chasing after him. At least two other officers and one detective then locate him further down 29th Street, just south of the intersection with St. Xavier Street. Those officers, Kody Despain and Benjamin Dean, as well as Det. Joseph Fox, also fire their weapons. Crowell said Wednesday that Jordan was struck multiple times. "Where's he shot at?" one officer can be heard asking in the body cam footage. "Everywhere. In the front, in the back, arm," another responds as they examine Jordan's bloody body to identify wound locations. The department's public integrity unit is investigating and those involved have been placed on administrative reassignment during the investigation. One officer appears to think he was shot in the leg, but Crowell confirmed Wednesday that no officers were shot. This is one of several incidents where an LMPD officer has shot a suspect in the past couple of months — described on Tuesday as "more than normal" by LMPD Chief Steve Conrad. At the Wednesday press conference, Conrad defended the officers' use of deadly force, based on the preliminary investigation. "Again, this is a dangerous job. We know that coming into the job," he said. "We hope and pray we never have to use deadly force, but this is a situation where officers were confronted with deadly force and they responded in a manner — at least based on the preliminary investigation — consistent with police, practices and training." Responding to whether the number of shots fired was excessive, Conrad said officers are able to "use force, in this case deadly force, to protect themselves and others from death or serious physical injury." "That said, as you are firing those shots as a police officer, you are going to have to account for those shots," he said, referring to training that instructs officers to think about what is beyond the target.

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