The video shows a car on its side on Interstate 440 in Raleigh. A 20-year-old tells a police officer he's in pain. A man, later identified as Daniel Turcios, walks with a 6-year-old child back to the car.
It's not clear what happened as firefighters and EMS on scene talk to the family and start treating the injuries from the crash. But Turcios can be seen on the police body camera video pulling a knife during the Jan. 11 incident.
First responders back away as police approach, telling the man to drop the knife. Bystanders are heard on the video translating the order into Spanish. At first he's walking away from the scene with a child, but a woman quickly gets the child away from him.
Warning: Graphic video - See body cam video of the shooting from the Raleigh Police Department
"Put the knife down, put the knife down now," an officer says in the video as he draws his Taser. Turcios shakes his head.
There's a scuffle with several officers and Turcios. A stun gun is heard going off in the video. At least five police surround Turcios.
The man swings the knife at officers before one shoots him. Another officer can be heard saying "shots fired, shots fired," and then three more gunshots are heard in the video.
Turcios crumped to the ground after the final gunshots.
The chaotic scene happened on the side of Interstate 440 on Jan. 11, just after 1:30 p.m.
The video, released Friday, shows police disarming Turcios after he's shot and then EMS begin to treat him on the scene. Turcios died at the hospital. Both the State Bureau of Investigation and the Raleigh Police Department Internal Affairs unit are investigating the shooting.
It will be up to the Wake County District Attorney's Office to decide on any possible charges for the police officers involved.
The Raleigh Police Department petitioned a Wake County judge to allow them to release the body camera video. A judge must sign off before body camera video can be released to the public in North Carolina.
Family and activists speak
Emancipate North Carolina Executive Director and Attorney Dawn Blagrove is calling for an independent investigation into the shooting.
At a press conference Friday, social justice activists spoke alongside Turcios' wife Rosa Perez.
"We want this officer to be held to the same standard as anyone else who commits gun violence in our community, because that's what this was," Blagrove said. "We want policy changes, we want criminal charges if they are warranted. We want everything that we can get to avoid this from ever happening to another family," she said.
Turcios' wife, Rosa Perez, said she was offered to see the body camera footage in a private viewing before its public release, but she did not want to see it. The executive director of nonprofit, El Pueblo, Iliana Santillan translated on her behalf.
"I've been offered to see the video privately, but why do I need to see something that I had to see in real life," translated Santillan. "I had to watch my husband die, my children had to watch it. I don't need to see that video again," she explained.
