The Nevada Highway Patrol released caller details Wednesday about the shooting of a Colorado man past week astatine Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area’s scenic loop.
Body camera footage showed the moments starring up to and including the shooting of Erik Legried, 29, by officers connected Thursday morning. Legried repeatedly did not comply with commands and was changeable aft helium rammed his motortruck into by a Highway Patrol vehicle, Maj. Martin Mleczkco said successful a video briefing.
Legried was changeable successful the limb and treated for nonlife-threatening injuries.
Those who changeable astatine Legried were identified Wednesday arsenic trooper Anthony Hernandez, 31, trooper Marcus McFadden, 31, and ranger Christopher Allen, 49, of the Bureau of Land Management. Allen and Hernandez fired 5 rounds, and McFadden fired three, according to the Highway Patrol.
Troopers, rangers and Las Vegas constabulary officers responded to the country adjacent the visitant halfway aft the Metropolitan Police Department received a telephone astatine 5:56 a.m. Thursday from a pistillate who said her lad was “suicidal” and was threatening to thrust head-on into different vehicles, Mleczkco said.
As officers pursued Legried astir the area, they attempted to artifact him successful and instrumentality him into custody. In assemblage camera video, Legried rams into a constabulary vehicle, past drives distant arsenic officers repeatedly outcry “get retired of the car!”
Another video shows a Highway Patrol conveyance ramming Legried’s motortruck connected the driver’s side. Airbags than deploy, and Legried starts driving away. Officers past commencement shooting, and the motortruck stops a fewer seconds later.
In a last video, Legried screams “you already changeable maine successful the leg!” arsenic helium is taken retired of the truck, his limb bloodied.
After being concisely hospitalized, Legried was booked astatine the Clark County Detention Center.
Legried appeared successful tribunal Tuesday and had his bail affirmed astatine $100,000.
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