Video: Roanoke police body camera footage
A segment of body camera footage showing the June 25 officer-involved shooting outside the Ashton Heights apartment complex. In an overview released Nov. 9, at the conclusion of an outside investigation, Commonwealth's Attorney Donald Caldwell said the gunfire began when Rasheed Mathew Moorman was fleeing from police, turned his upper body while still running and began firing a handgun. The police returned fire. Caldwell concluded the police acted in self-defense.
This clip shows the first 30 seconds of the full video, which is nearly 3 minutes long, ending just before Moorman was shot. Following the normal-speed video is slow-motion version of the last several seconds of the clip.
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Body camera footage documenting last summer’s officer-involved shooting in Roanoke was released Monday in response to media requests.
Police body cameras caught Moorman firing four times during the June chase. Two rounds struck an apartment occupied by a mother and child, and a third hit a nearby police vehicle, but no injuries were reported from those shots.
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