Police release bodycam footage of northwest Fresno officer-involved shooting

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Police person released bodycam footage of an officer-involved shooting from Saturday, Nov. 4. Officers responded to a 9-1-1 telephone for a payment cheque conscionable aft 3 a.m. Saturday astatine the Dante Apartment analyzable astatine Dante and Cornelia Avenues successful northwest Fresno.

Officers accidental they had received a telephone from a pistillate who said her husband, 33-year-old Max Sosa Jr., was making suicidal threats.

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When officers arrived, they spotted Sosa successful a car. Police accidental helium accelerated towards the officers and started a abbreviated pursuit.

The pursuit was rapidly called disconnected erstwhile officers mislaid show of Sosa's car owed to his reckless driving.

After the chase, officers returned backmost to the flat to talk with the pistillate who called. Police accidental Sosa past called the woman's phone, making threats to himself and officers.

At 4:35 p.m., Sosa returned to the flat with scissors and confronted 2 officers who were wrong the apartment. Officers attempted to de-escalate the concern but were not palmy arsenic Sosa continued to situation the officers, making threats to stab them and saying they were going to person to sprout him.

Sosa walked retired of the flat wherever 2 further officers were lasting extracurricular the door. When helium crossed the doorway frame, an serviceman fired his taser astatine Sosa.

As the taser was going off, Sosa moved towards the officers, who past opened fire.

This incidental was the sixth officer-involved shooting for 2023.

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