Video After The Jump
San Leandro’s Police Chief made a plea to the community a day after officers fatally shot a man wielding a bat at a Walmart to dispel what he called rumors circulating on social media.
Chief Jeff Tudor took to Facebook to clarify details of the deadly encounter.
“Our officer discharged his service weapon one time, striking the subject in the front of his upper body,” Tudor said. “It is still early on in this investigation, and we will provide you more information in the near future... Your patience is needed. Thank you."
The shooting was captured on video just inside the front doors of the store, where police can been seen confronting a man with a bat Saturday afternoon.
Later, an officer points a pistol at him. Then a gunshot rings out.
Police have identified the man killed as 33-year-old Steven Taylor from San Leandro. The federal civil rights attorney representing his family called the shooting unlawful and is planning an independent autopsy, and has dispatched private investigators.
Lee Merritt, an attorney for Taylor’s family, said Taylor was going through a mental health crisis on Saturday afternoon, and that he has previously suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and bipolar depression. “He was shot after he had become completely helpless and no longer represented a threat,” Merritt told the Guardian on Monday.
Source: NBC Bay Area
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