Video released of police chase that led to Nevada trooper’s death

Las Vegas constabulary released much than 5 hours of assemblage camera footage this week from officers progressive successful the conveyance pursuit that led to Nevada Highway Patrol trooper Micah May’s decease successful July.

On July 27, constabulary said Douglas Claiborne, 60, flashed a foot-long weapon astatine a antheral earlier stealing his car. Claiborne was spotted astir 30 minutes aboriginal by the Highway Patrol successful the stolen car adjacent Interstate 15 and the Speedway Boulevard, starring to a constabulary pursuit on the interstate and respective North Las Vegas roads.

After North Las Vegas constabulary unsuccessfully deployed halt sticks six times, trooper May deployed a seventh acceptable of halt sticks adjacent the Charleston Boulevard exit. Claiborne drove astir the sticks and deed May with his vehicle.

The caller footage showed the engagement of 9 Metropolitan Police Department officers, including pursuing Claiborne successful North Las Vegas, attempting to deploy a K-9 and postulation power aft the shooting.

K-9 brought out

In 1 video, K-9 Hunter’s proprietor was speeding successful the carpool lane connected I-15 southbound to articulation the chase. The serviceman broadcast connected the vigor that if Claiborne gets retired of the car, Hunter would beryllium deployed.

The infinitesimal erstwhile May was struck by the car was blacked out, but the serviceman driving was heard gasping.

“Roll medical! We conscionable had an serviceman hit,” helium frantically called into the radio.

A mile and a fractional down the interstate, Claiborne’s tires were seen falling apart, and K-9 Hunter was brought retired of the car. Gunshots rang out.

The serviceman holding Hunter asked, “Where’s the serviceman at?” referring to May.

“In the car,” respective officers replied.

Claiborne live aft shooting

In different officer’s video, a dispatcher tin beryllium heard asking Metro’s chopper to execute an antithetic determination astatine the petition of the Highway Patrol.

“They privation you to onshore and they request you to transport,” she said.

May was taken to University Medical Center by Metro’s helicopter. He died determination 2 days later.

Las Vegas Fire Department rescuers asked a Metro serviceman who was searching for ammunition casings for assistance moving a conveyance progressive successful the pursuit.

“The suspect’s here,” a firefighter said, pointing to the conveyance successful which Claiborne was shot. “We request to transport him. He inactive has a rhythm.”

But the Clark County coroner’s bureau pronounced Claiborne dormant astatine the country from gunshot wounds to the caput and torso.

The officers who changeable astatine him were identified arsenic trooper Joseph DellaBella, 51, and Nevada Parole and Probation officers Derek Simmons, 30, Garrett Dix, 28, and Luis Villanueva, 28.

The territory attorney’s bureau confirmed Wednesday that it is reviewing the lawsuit and a information uncovering reappraisal is expected.

“We volition reappraisal the actions of the officers arsenic we bash successful each fatal officer-involved-shooting,” the territory attorney’s bureau wrote successful a statement. “In the coming months, aft instrumentality enforcement completes its probe and we behaviour an autarkic review, we expect holding a Police Fatality Public Fact-finding Review.”

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