SACRAMENTO COUNTY – The household of a person shot and killed by deputies final month is now looking for justice and sharing residence surveillance video that captured the entire incident on digital camera.
It occurred on March 23 round 8:15 a.m. on the 6500 Block of Campanile Avenue in Rio Linda.
Sacramento County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned they have been responding to reviews of a suicidal topic later recognized as 38-year-old Christopher Gilmore.
Bobbie Gilmore, Christopher’s sister, reported her brother was affected by a psychological well being disaster after she discovered him unconscious in a bath coated in blood. When deputies arrived Christopher had regained consciousness and was standing within the storage showing to carry some sort of a knife or blade.
The video begins with 4 Sacramento County Sheriff’s deputies gathering within the nook of the driveway. You possibly can hear deputies name out “Drop the knife.” Christopher emerges from the storage seconds later bare, holding what the household says is a disposable razor.
He’s shot a number of occasions by rubber bullets earlier than reaching the tip of the pink pick-up truck, the place it seems a deputy on the street opens hearth.
“He did not want any person, ya know, to simply pull the set off, they did not even attempt, they did not even give him an opportunity,” Bobbie defined.
Bobbie could be seen standing throughout the road. She says she was making an attempt to assist deputies get Christopher to return out safely.
“I began teaching him to return out after which they killed him,” Bobbie mentioned.
The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned it has tried each mitigating issue earlier than resorting to deadly pressure however mentioned Christopher saved advancing towards deputies with a knife in hand.
Nonetheless, Bobbie mentioned her brother has schizophrenia and was struggling a psychological well being disaster and was not a risk to deputies.
Daniel Del Rio, the lawyer representing Bobbie and her household, advised CBS13 deputies made a sequence of errors, noting Christopher was affected by accidents to himself and didn’t look like making an attempt to assault officers.
“This isn’t a person seeking to interact in a battle, if something, when he was propelling himself ahead quicker as they are saying, he was attempting to get away from the one that was capturing him with rubber bullets. A pure response any particular person would have,” Del Rio mentioned.
CBS13 reached out to the sheriff’s workplace for remark, however they are saying they haven’t seen the video and the division will not have any response till they launch all of their movies, which can be inside 45 days of the incident.
