The video begins with law enforcement officers armed with rifles searching a wooded area near Raleigh's Hedingham neighborhood.
They knew they were looking for a teenager dressed in camouflage who is accused of killing five people in a mass shooting about 90 minutes before.
They're following a K9 as the dog searches for the suspect, police said. As they approach a building, there's a gunshot and one officer falls to the ground.
Watch the body camera video here
The video shows police take cover and start firing back at the building. They fired dozens of rounds toward the building in quick succession.
Others pull the injured officer, 33-year-old Casey Clark, back and begin to treat his wounds.
The Raleigh Police Department released the body camera video Thursday, showing the end of the manhunt for the suspect in the Oct. 13 mass shooting. The shooting began just before 5:15 p.m. that day, according to police. The teenage suspect's shootout with police happened at about 6:45 p.m.
Police said they surrounded the building to make sure the teen, identified as Austin Thompson, did not escape. Police did not approach the building until just after 9:30 p.m., when a special tactical unit went in and found Thompson shot and lying on the ground, but still alive.
Multiple officers fired at the suspect in the shootout, and it remains unclear if the suspect was shot by police or if the wound was self-inflicted.
It's also not clear how severe the suspect's injuries are. District Attorney Lorrin Freeman has said she plans to file to move the case to superior court to charge Thompson as an adult, but he has yet to appear in court on adult charges.
The body-cam footage shows the importance of coordination among law enforcement agencies during public safety emergencies, an expert in policing practices said Thursday.
Roy Taylor, a former police chief and a law enforcement consultant, noted that North Carolina standardizes training in response to active shooters, enabling officers to more easily cooperate.
"If you look at the video, you not only see Raleigh P.D., but also state troopers and Wake County deputies all working together,” Taylor said. “They all had the exact same training, every officer across the state has that training, and so that helps you function more as a team."
Five people died that afternoon after the shooting: 16-year-old James Thompson, brother of the shooting suspect; off-duty Raleigh police Officer Gabriel Torres, 29; Nicole Connors, 52; Mary Marshall, 35; and Susan Karnatz, 49. Marcille Gardner, 59, was wounded.
Investigators have not said if they know why the teenager went on the rampage through the suburban neighborhood in northeast Raleigh.
The mass shooting began in the neighborhood, where two people were killed, according to police. The teenage gunman then moved to the Neuse River Greenway, where he killed three more, police said.
The shooting drew a massive police response to the neighborhood, which backs up to the Neuse River.
Raleigh was the latest in a string of mass shootings around the country.
"We have to double our efforts to end gun violence that has its grips on our country and now our city," the Raleigh mayor said the day after the shooting.
"Today we're sad, we're angry and we want to know answers," said North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, who joined city officials the morning after the massacre. "No one should feel this fear," he said. "As policy makers we will not turn away."
The shooting in Raleigh Thursday evening was the 25th mass killing in the United States this year, according to The Associated Press. The news organization defines mass killings as when four or more people die, not including the perpetrator.
The worst mass shooting this year so far was at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers on May 24. The most recent happened Sunday, when five people were killed in a shooting at a home in Inman, South Carolina.
"We have to make sense of this infuriating act of gun violence," the governor said at the time. "I think we all know the core truth: no neighborhood, no parent, no child, no grandparent, no one should feel this fear in their communities.”