Video footage was released Wednesday of an officer-involved shooting last month that left a 39-year-old man dead at an apartment complex in north Stockton.
Stockton police say Antwane Burrise, who was wanted in connection with a murder in June, accelerated backward into the path of an undercover officer after being surrounded in a carport in the 5200 block of Cosumnes Drive just off of Trinity Parkway.
“That officer, fearing for his safety, and two uniformed officers, also fearing for the officer’s safety, fired their weapons, striking Burrise,” said Capt. Eric Kane, who overseas the Stockton Police Department’s Investigations Division.
The three officers involved in the July 15 incident were identified by police as David Wells, a Field Operations Division officer hired in 2003; Blake Epperson, a Community Response Team officer hired by the department in September 2013; and Jon Griffin, a detective with the Ceasefire Intervention Unit hired in May 2013.
Wells was cleared two years ago in the 2016 shooting death of 30-year-old Colby Friday.
The incident summary video, which included bodycam footage from Wells and Epperson during the incident and radio traffic from officers at the scene, was posted to the Stockton Police Department’s Facebook page late Tuesday afternoon. Police said Griffin, the undercover officer seen in the video, was not wearing a body camera at the time of the shooting. …
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