BATAVIA, N.Y. -- A former Buffalo police officer who's now an investigator in the Erie County District Attorney's Office is sharing his story to help educate probation officers about officer-involved shootings.
Bobby Yeates responded to an incident in Buffalo in 2012, and found a four-year-old boy on a porch who had been stabbed several times.
When Yeates went inside the house to investigate, the boy's grandmother lunged at him with two knives and he was forced to shoot her.
She died of her injuries.
"It was probably as long as a snap of my finger that I glanced down and turned around, but it seemed like everything stopped," Yeates said. "I remember images of my wife and kids going through my mind. I knew I couldn't back up any further and I knew I needed to hold my ground. I pretty much knew what was coming next and I knew I had to do it because I promised them I'd come home."
Yeates was cleared of any wrongdoing by a grand jury and retired from the BPD in December 2014.