Farmington Police release videos from April 9 of officers killing armed suspect

Graphic raw footage showing events before, during and after the April 9 shooting of a 21-year-old Farmington man police were trying to arrest was released by the Farmington Police Department Thursday.

Police also released a video statement from Chief Steve Hebbe about the shooting.

Farmington resident Charlie Thompson, 21, was identified on April 12 as the man police shot and killed.

The raw video footage, captured by several police vest cams — and some dashboard camera footage from the patrol cars of responding officers — shows a foot pursuit across 20th Street and into a residential neighborhood, ending near the intersection of Yucca Avenue and Sage Drive where the shooting took place.

The chase and confrontation on April 9 began when police rolled up in squad cars to detain a felony warrant suspect they spotted in the parking lot near a gym and other businesses on 1700 block of East 20th Street.

It was around 4:50 p.m. that police officers saw Thompson sitting inside a vehicle in that parking lot and ordered him out of a truck. Thompson is seen in a video reaching into the truck to retrieve something before running across 20th Street.

One pursuing officer radioed that the suspect had a gun, and, when the chase stopped, officers are heard on the video repeatedly urging Thompson to drop a firearm he held in his right hand. A video caption added by police noted he had a cellphone in his left hand.

Police confirmed on May 5 that a .40 caliber Glock pistol with a loaded magazine was recovered at the scene. After the shooting, a video indicates that the gun was placed on the roof of a nearby squad car, and an officer was told to stay with it.

After the shooting, the vest cam videos recorded efforts by officers to staunch bleeding from the man’s chest wound as they waited for an ambulance to arrive.

Hebbe said in his video that police worked with the District Attorney's Office to ensure that Thompson's family was shown the videos before their public release.
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