Brentwood police have launched a video exhibiting a metropolis police officer capturing at a person who’d already fired a pistol at two different officers, and authorities now acknowledge that each the suspect and the girl he was holding hostage have been struck by the officer’s gunfire.
The video of the March 12 incident, launched in an edited type Tuesday, exhibits Brentwood police Officer Jordan Sares firing at 30-year-old Joshua Dion Smith whereas operating towards Smith, as he stands in a dimly lit entrance to an residence on Sycamore Avenue in Brentwood. The video exhibits Smith was utilizing the girl as a human defend as he fired at two officers moments earlier than Sares got here head to head with him and fired one spherical of their path.
The bullet fired by Sares hit a staircase handrail and broke up into smaller items, which struck each Smith and the girl. Afterward, the 2 fell to the bottom, inflicting Smith to drop the gun. Officer then rushed in to arrest him.
Not one of the officers have been struck by gunfire. Each Smith and the girl have been briefly hospitalized with nonfatal accidents.
The video’s launch marks the primary time police have particularly acknowledged the girl was struck by an officer’s bullet. An earlier information launch on the incident stated the girl was struck by gunfire and that each police and Smith fired pictures in the course of the incident, however didn’t specify who truly shot her.
Smith was subsequently charged with 15 felonies, together with making an attempt to homicide three Brentwood officers, kidnapping the girl, assaulting her with a firearm, legal threats, gun possession, and false imprisonment by means of violence, in accordance with court docket information. The fees stay pending and Smith is in pretrial detention within the Contra Costa jail system.
Sares has been with Brentwood police since 2014, has labored as a violent crimes detective, and earlier than working at Brentwood was a Contra Costa sheriff’s deputy for 2 years, in accordance with public information.
After Smith was arrested, video exhibits Sares and different officers rendering help to the girl, whose face is blurred within the video.
“Sweetheart are you OK? My title’s Officer Sares…we’re gonna provide help to, OK?” Sares says, in accordance with footage from his body-worn digital camera, as the girl moans in ache. “We’ve received an ambulance coming. Deal with me, OK?”
The graphic video may be considered in its entirety under: