Christian Taylor shooting: Video shows teen breaking into a car before fatal shooting - TomoNews
ARLINGTON, TEXAS —
Surveillance video released by the
Classic Buick GMC dealership in
Arlington, Texas shows 19-year-old
Christian Taylor wandering around the dealership lot and vandalizing a silver mustang before being shot dead by police early Friday morning
.
In the video,
Taylor’s jeep pulled up outside of the gates of the car dealership off
Interstate 20 at 12:52 a.m. on Friday. After failing to open the door of a silver truck, Taylor climbed on top of a silver
Mustang and stomped on the car’s windshield at 1:02 a.m. Taylor stomped and jumped on the hood before pulling up the now broken windshield and easing himself into the car at 1:07 a.m. At 1:13 a.m., Taylor got back into his
SUV and crashed into the dealership’s glass showroom.
By 1:16 a.m., two
Arlington police officers responding to a burglary call also entered the showroom to confront Taylor. Taylor refused to surrender though, and tried to escape through locked doors, Arlington
Police Chief Will Johnson said.
An altercation took place inside the dealership lobby where a rookie officer, 49-year-old
Brad Miller, fired four shots while the other officer, a 19-year veteran, used a Taser, said
Johnson. However, Johnson was not able to describe the shooting or how close either of the policemen were to Taylor when
Miller opened fire.
Taylor suffered gunshot wounds to the neck, chest and abdomen and died at the scene. An ambulance pulled up to the showroom at 1:30 a.m.
Officer Miller has since been placed on leave and Arlington police have asked the
FBI to join the investigation to determine any possible criminal case or policy violations in the death of Taylor by the hands of rookie cop, said Johnson in a press conference.
“We recognize the importance of these topics, the impact these issues have on communities throughout our nation, and we pledge to act in a transparent manner in an effort to alleviate these concerns,” Johnson said.
Miller joined Arlington police in
September 2014 and had been in field training under the supervision of a police training officer since graduating from the academy in March. The 16-week training period was about to be up, according to police. Miller has no previous police experience and this was the first time he fired his weapon at a person while on duty.
-------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to TomoNews, where we animate the most entertaining news on the internets. Come here for an animated look at viral headlines, US news, celebrity gossip, salacious scandals, dumb criminals and much more! Subscribe now for daily news animations that will knock your socks off.
Visit our official website for all the latest, uncensored videos:
http://us.tomonews.net
Check out our
Android app: http://bit.ly/1rddhCj
Check out our iOS app: http://bit.ly/1gO3z1f
Stay connected with us here:
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/TomoNewsUS
Twitter @tomonewsus http://www.twitter.com/TomoNewsUS
Google+ http://plus.google.com/+TomoNewsUS/
Instagram @tomonewsus http://instagram.com/tomonewsus