Police released body camera footage and 911 audio on Friday of officers fatally shooting a homeowner after they responded to the wrong house for a domestic violence call.
Farmington Police officers killed Robert Dotson, 52, when he answered the door with a handgun on April 5 at about 11:30 p.m., police initially said.
The newly released videos show the unidentified officers immediately opening fire after Dotson opened the door with the gun. Officers opened fire again after a woman was heard in the video screaming. Police previously said the woman, Dotson’s wife, returned fire to the officers. She was not injured.
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Their three children were upstairs, officers said in the footage. Farmington is a city of over 45,000 in the northwestern part of New Mexico, near the Colorado border.
“All of us — the men and women of the Farmington Police Department — recognize the severity of this incident,” Chief Steven Hebbe said in a statement.
Read more: USA Today
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