SACRAMENTO — Authorities in Northern California launched physique digital camera video exhibiting a person masking his eyes with one hand and elevating a machete within the air whereas strolling towards his spouse and a sheriff’s deputy, earlier than the deputy shot and killed him.
The person was fatally shot on Sept. 28 within the entrance yard of his Sacramento dwelling after his spouse known as police, saying her husband had a machete and was suicidal. The Sacramento County Coroner’s Workplace recognized him as Jaime Naranjo Bautista, 55.
The Sacramento Sheriff’s Workplace launched a video Tuesday that exhibits the deputy arriving on the dwelling and speaking to Bautista’s spouse outdoors. Inside seconds, Bautista seems on the door and begins to stroll towards his spouse and the deputy who asks him a number of instances to “put it down.”
As an alternative, Bautista covers his eyes as and raises the machete and advances towards his spouse. The deputy pushes Bautista’s spouse to the bottom and yells “don’t do it” earlier than firing 5 photographs, lower than a minute after arriving on the dwelling.
“As soon as the deputy was backed as much as the fence and the topic continued to disregard the instructions and advance in direction of the deputy and feminine, the deputy fired his responsibility weapon putting the topic a number of instances,” the Sheriff’s Workplace stated in a press release accompanying the video.
Bautista was taken to a hospital the place he died.
Detectives recovered a two-foot (0.6 meter) lengthy, rusted machete that's proven in an proof photograph included within the video.
The video additionally consists of audio of the 911 name made by Bautista’s spouse. The recording begins with a 911 emergency call-taker telling the dispatcher: “Her husband needs to commit suicide, and he has a machete.”
The lady tells the dispatcher she tried to “battle it out of his hand.” She says she is outdoors the house and her husband is inside. When the dispatcher asks about her husband’s psychological well being, she says her husband doesn't have a psychological well being situation and has by no means been violent towards anybody. However she did say
The lady additionally stated her husband hadn’t been sleeping properly for months and that she had known as 911 as soon as earlier than for a welfare verify after he accused her of poisoning him, in keeping with the recording.
The deputy, a 4-year veteran of the Sheriff’s Workplace, will likely be positioned on paid administrative go away pending the investigation, the workplace stated.
The investigation into the incident will likely be carried out by the Sheriff’s Murder Bureau and Skilled Requirements Division, and an unbiased evaluate of the officer-involved capturing will likely be carried out by the Sacramento County District Legal professional’s Workplace and the Inspector Basic, it stated.