SAN FRANCISCO —Newly released footage shows an officer-involved shooting of a man who brandished a gun over a fence, allegedly to tell neighbor children to quiet down, according to an OIS briefing during a San Francisco Police Department virtual town hall.
The March 8 incident began when a 911 caller reported that a man yelled at the caller’s children to be quiet while holding a gun above a tall fence. After ensuring the safety of the caller’s family and setting up personnel on scene, SFPD officers called the suspect’s wife, who told them the man was depressed, had been drinking and owned multiple firearms.
As the officers tried to make contact with the man, he entered and re-exited his home, walked around the backyard and pointed his gun at a drone overhead. Drone footage shows the man moving along the fence while trying to point the gun at a drone.
As he moved along the fence, an officer positioned on the 911 caller’s balcony fired a shot at the man. The man appeared to also fire shots, with an officer calling in that he had fired shots into the air.
“Looks like he just shot himself in the arm,” an officer said on the radio.
Drone footage shows the man running away from the fence and into his yard. Body camera footage from officers on the ground shows them approaching the man while instructing him to lay on the ground.
After officers climbed over a fence to reach the man, they began to render aid, beginning by applying two tourniquets to the man’s arm.
