Video Shows Ryan LeRoux Moving In Car Before Montgomery County Police Fatally Shot Him In McDonald’s Drive Thru

GAITHERSBURG, Md. (AP) — Body camera videos released Tuesday amusement a 21-year-old antheral moving wrong a parked car moments earlier constabulary changeable and killed him extracurricular a McDonald’s edifice successful Maryland.

At a media briefing, Montgomery County constabulary Chief Marcus Jones narrated a 28-minute-long compilation of bodycam video excerpts and a recorded telephone telephone betwixt constabulary and the driver, Ryan LeRoux, earlier the July 16 shooting successful Gaithersburg. But the main didn’t explicit immoderate sentiment astir whether the Friday nighttime shooting was justified.

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Prosecutors successful a neighboring region are investigating.

Jones, who didn’t instrumentality immoderate questions from reporters, said constabulary recovered a weapon from LeRoux’s thigh aft 4 officers opened occurrence connected him. The main didn’t accidental whether investigators judge LeRoux raised a limb oregon posed a menace to constabulary during a standoff that lasted astir 30 minutes.

Jones showed segments of videos that captured the shooting from the position of an officer’s assemblage camera and a assemblage camera that officers had placed successful a drive-thru model person to LeRoux’s athletics inferior vehicle.

“Their cameras bash not regenerate the quality oculus and what the officers saw that evening,” Jones said.

An serviceman responded to a trespassing telephone that LeRoux had ordered food, refused to wage for it, and wouldn’t determination his SUV from the drive-thru lane, according to police. The serviceman instantly radioed that helium saw a weapon connected the beforehand rider spot and repeatedly ordered LeRoux astatine gunpoint to rise his hands and dilatory unlock 1 of his doors with his near hand.

“He’s awake, but he’s not listening to my commands,” the serviceman said implicit his radio. “He’s got his hands connected his phone. The weapon is connected the rider seat. Get cover!”

Officers taking screen down a shield approached LeRoux’s SUV and placed “stop sticks” successful beforehand of the vehicle. Police placed the camera successful the drive-thru model to get a amended vantage constituent of the weapon successful his car, Jones said.

A pistillate from the constabulary department’s exigency bid halfway spoke to LeRoux implicit his cellphone. LeRoux said helium saw the officers and complied with their commands to rise his hands.

“I tin perceive them conscionable fine,” helium said.

“We’re conscionable trying to assistance you here,” the pistillate told LeRoux, asking him to widen his hands retired a window.

Jones said the officers didn’t spot LeRoux’s hands up oregon retired the window.

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A constabulary sergeant aboriginal called LeRoux.

“What’s going on, man?” the sergeant asked. “Hello? He conscionable hung up connected me.”

The video from the drive-thru model shows LeRoux beryllium up from a reclining presumption moments earlier gunfire erupted, shattering the window.

“He’s up!” astatine slightest 2 officers shouted conscionable earlier the shooting.

A situation negotiator was heading to the country but didn’t get earlier the shooting, Jones said.

Leroux died astatine a hospital. A loaded Glock 47 was recovered from the scene, according to the chief.

The 4 officers progressive successful the incidental were placed connected administrative leave, a modular process aft a shooting. All 4 officers are white, and LeRoux was Black, constabulary section spokeswoman Shiera Goff said.

The Howard County State’s Attorney’s Office volition reappraisal the lawsuit nether an statement with its counterpart successful neighboring Montgomery County.

The Silver Spring Justice Coalition said successful a connection that it planned to clasp a property briefing Tuesday with LeRoux’s household astatine a parkland successful Gaithersburg.

Police showed assemblage camera footage to LeRoux’s father, Paul, who said the video did not amusement his lad picking up the weapon oregon pointing it astatine police, according to the coalition.

“The constabulary main has said that helium excessively is incapable to corroborate that Ryan was holding a weapon and/or pointing it astatine officers. As such, the constabulary main has admitted helium is incapable to explicate wherefore Ryan was changeable aggregate times,” said the coalition’s statement.

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