Police1 Staff
TULSA, Okla. — The Tulsa Police Department released body camera video last week of a fatal officer-involved shooting that took place in October.
ABC 8 reports the shooting occurred Oct. 27 when Officers D. Jones, C. Riley and J. McRee stopped to assist a vehicle pulled over with its hazard lights on.
The female driver told officers she was having an issue with her wheels and her ex-boyfriend, Luis Arreguin-Lara, had gone to get something to fix it, Sgt. Shane Tuell with the Tulsa Police Department told ABC 8. The driver also told police Arreguin-Lara had a felony warrant out for his arrest.
Police told ABC 8 that 50-year-old Arreguin-Lara approached the vehicle on a bicycle with a tire iron when the three officers approached him. When they asked him to put the tire iron down, they say he pulled a gun from his side.
“He turned his right hip sideways to get his hip away from the officers and began digging at his hip, and that was a key indicator to the officers he may have a weapon, and sure enough, he did,” Sgt. Tuell told ABC 8.
Arreguin-Lara died at the scene, police said.