‘Gap in communication’ preceded officer shooting at business owner

Fort Worth police said “the difference in communication” before an officer fired his weapon at the business owner when the police investigated them in the business.

Police were called around 3:50 pm on March 12 at a restaurant in a restaurant in the 1100 block of Terminal Road. Officers arrived shortly before 4am and searched for forced admission.

A Body Camera Video released on TuesdayAn officer can be seen walking behind the business. The officer arrives at the rear of the building and pulls his gun and older people around the wall. When he is looking at the back of the business, a man gets out of the car and the officer switchs to his flashlight.

The officer says, “Yu, show me your hands.”

The man then identified the officer’s firearms, and the officers “stop!” Forced to say. And repeat their order to show this person your hands.

An officer fired his weapon in the same way as an officer could hear the man screaming to keep the gun down. Almost a couple of seconds pass between this person that first appeared in the video and the shot was fired. In the body camera video, officers are not heard as police before the shot was fired.

After being shot, the man told police that he was a business owner, and it can be heard saying that the officers frightened him. He then obeyed the officers’ orders and was briefly detained before the police confirmed his identity as the owner of the restaurant.

Fort Worth police said investigators appointed the restaurant and that the storage area was broken by an unknown suspect in the back of the property. Neither the business owner nor the police were injured in the incident, and until Tuesday, no arrests were made.

At a press conference on Tuesday, Fort Worth Police Executive Assistant Chief Rob Aldridge said the officers had “not really time” to identify himself as a policeman because how soon the situation opened. He also said that the business owner had given his weapons to the officers without knowing that they were the police.

“As we watched the video, there was a difference between contact between the owner and the police officers,” said Aldridge. “The officers were unaware that the business owner was at the scene, and the business owner was unaware that the officers were on his property.”

Aldridge said that the officers on leave after the shooting will return on duty on Tuesday night.