San Diego police fatally shoots 16-year-old who was running away from a shooting

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San Diego, CA - San Diego police released body-worn camera footage on Friday showing the moment an officer shot and killed a 16-year-old in downtown last month.

The shooting occurred around 9 p.m. on Jan. 28 nearby Santa Fe Depot. Police had been in the area responding to an unrelated report of an assault at the nearby MTS Trolley station when gunshots rang out from the train station, prompting officers to head to the scene.

Shortly after the incident, police said the 16-year-old, whose name has not been released, had been identified as a suspect in the initial shooting. However, the bodycam footage questions about whether the officer’s actions in firing at the teenager were warranted.

The video of the incident released by SDPD begins with security camera footage of the initial shooting, which diverted officers from the assault report.

In the video, the 16-year-old can be seen walking west through a corridor at Santa Fe Depot with another individual. The teenager then walked up to two individuals who had been standing at the train platform as his companion crossed to the other side to board an incoming Trolley.

Police said some kind of verbal confrontation ensued between the 16-year-old and the two individuals standing at the west platform, prompting one of the individuals to open fire at the teen while he ran back into the train station, as seen in the security camera footage.

Using a map, police said in the video that the shooter and his companion ran north from the scene along the train tracks.

One of the two officers who was on scene responding to the assault — identified as Daniel Gold, who has been with the force for two years — had exited his patrol car parked on Kettner Boulevard less than a minute before the gunshots rang out.

Upon hearing the shots, Gold ran towards the corridor to enter Santa Fe Depot, where the teenager had fled after the confrontation on the train platform. The two encountered each other outside the corridor, along Kettner Boulevard.

The next segment of the video shows Gold’s bodycam footage of this encounter with the 16-year-old.

As Gold ran toward the entrance to Santa Fe Depot, the teenager is seen running out of the hallway. Once he encountered the teenager, Gold can be heard saying “woah” to the teenager before firing off one shot at a close range.

The teenager did not appear to be pointing a weapon at the officer, nor did he appear to make any direct threats prior to Gold firing his weapon.

After the gunshot, the teenager can be heard letting out a scream while he doubles over and ran to the other side of another patrol car on Kettner Boulevard. Once the teenager was on the other side of the vehicle, Gold then can be heard identifying himself as SDPD.

Body camera footage then cuts to the moment when authorities recovered a gun from the suspect. Police said it was found as officers began providing medical aid prior to paramedics arriving on scene.

In the footage, officers appeared to have discovered the gun while cutting in to a portion of the teenager’s clothes to administer aid. At that point, one of the responding officers can be heard saying, “easy with the gun.”

A second officer was then heard saying, “As of right now, this is our only suspect, the one we’re going medical work on right now.”

After paramedics arrived, the teenager was transported to a nearby hospital for further treatment, but he later died from his injury.