August 9, 2014
4:40 p.m.
Detective
St. Louis County Police Department
Det.
Der.
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Today's date is Saturday, August 9, 2014, the time is approximately 4:40
p.m. My name is Detective , St. Louis County Police
Department This interview is in reference to a-a officer-
involved shooting resulting in a fatality a referenced under St. Louis
County Police Report Number 14-43984. The person being interviewed
is date of birth I'm sorry, a, who
resides at V'm sorry what's your street
name here?
A, Canfield, Canfield Court.
Okay, a, we spoke um, prior to this
recording about what you witnessed outside. Um, can you kinda tell me
in your own words what you saw?
(Okay, I was in the bedroom and | hear a altercation outside. | happens
to look out the window and | see um, the young guy was at the
Ferguson police car on the passenger window and I see somethin
exchanged...some arms exchanged and that’s when I call my fiancé for
her to look out the window and um, that’s when I ran into the front
outside and that’s when um, I see, actually it was two guys um, when,
but the guy, he constantly, he just ran down in the middle of the street
and the officer just gets out the car and shoots. I thought it was six
times. So, um, when he-when he hit, | guess when he hit the first and
the second time the guy, he kinda stopped and turned around facing the
officer, a bent down alittle bit curled up and the officer let out, what
three maybe four more shots to the guy and that’s when he hit the
ground and um, and that was it. And, that was the whole thing. And,
he actually had a friend, he, I don’t know. | just seen him duck down, a
car, um, they had a car door open, it was a white car. Um, he hopped in
| guess those two cars left.
Okay.Der.
Der.
DET.
Der.
So, um, but-but that’s the whole scene right there. So, the guy's down,
the officer um, still have his gun out and tellin’ everybody to back-back
the ones that was outside and that was that. And, you guys called to.
(Okay, um, these-this other guy who was by the officer’s car, can you
describe him?
A..ya know the only thing that | could say that he may have, | definitely
know that he was black, um, he had dreads.
Okay.
But, I can’t even describe of what he had on ‘cause everything was
happening so quick, ‘cause somethin’ happens here almost every
weekend,
Gotcha,
So, um, yeah, that's it.
Okay. That'll conclude the interview. The time is approximately 4:43
p.m.