Fatal officer-involved shooting at Novant Health [Part 2]
@ 2:00 - Part 1 at https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=ujC6T_1522091611
Body camera footage of a fatal officer-involved shooting at a Huntersville hospital in September 2017 was released Monday.
The shooting happened around 11:40 p.m. inside the Novant Health Huntersville Medical Center along the 10030-block of Gilead Road on Sept. 10. According to the Huntersville Police Department, the man, identified by the SBI as 76-year-old Joseph Charles Cook, fired multiple shots inside a room at the hospital before officers were called.
Cook then reportedly disappeared in a corridor and police began a manhunt.
While searching the area, police say they "encountered the man still armed with the gun." Officers said an encounter ensued and multiple shots were fired because they felt "threatened by the man's actions."
In the released Monday, officers can be heard telling a man near a nurses' station just off camera to show his hands at least twice before multiple shots can be heard. Moments later, the officers give demands for the man to drop a gun then say the gun can be seen.
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