A new video surfaced Saturday that appears to show a man throwing punches at a California police officer during a scuffle before the man was fatally shot outside of a convenience store.
Dillan Tabares, 27, has been identified as the man who was fatally shot by a Huntington Beach police officer on Friday morning outside of a 7-Eleven in the beach city.
Tabares, who previously served in the Navy as an information systems technicians, had fallen on hard times in 2012 according to a Facebook post where he discussed how he lost his security clearance in the Navy due to testing positive for marijuana that he self-medicated for depression.
It’s unclear what he was doing outside of the convenience store or why police were called, but a new video shared to social media and YouTube shows Tabares in a physical confrontation with a police officer.
Dillan Tabares (above), 27, has been identified as the man who was fatally shot by a Huntington Beach police officer on Friday morning outside of a 7-Eleven in the beach city. A new video surfaced Saturday that appears to show another angle of the shooting
The new clip appears to show Tabares (above) throwing punches at the police officer during a scuffle outside of the 7-Eleven. The footage was filmed from inside a car in the parking lot. The officer appears to get Tabares in a headlock and they wrestle to the ground
Once they are on the ground, the cop can be heard shouting, ‘let go of my gun!’ though he appears to retain full control of the weapon during the encounter. Moments later, Tabares stands up and the officer fires his weapon striking the 27-year-old several times (above)
The footage, which was filmed from inside a car in the parking lot, starts with the officer pointing a stun gun at Tabares and ordering him to sit down.
Tabares seems unaffected when the officer fires the stun gun and quickly rushes toward the officer before repeatedly punching him.
The officer appears to get Tabares in a headlock and they wrestle to the ground.
Once they are on the ground, the officer can be heard shouting, ‘let go of my gun!’ though he appears to retain full control of the weapon during the entire encounter.
Moments later, Tabares stands up and the officer fires his weapon striking the 27-year-old several times. He is seen stumbling backward before falling to the ground against a wall.
He stumbled on his feet and staggered backwards before the cop fired his seventh shot at Tabares
Tabares was rushed to a hospital where he later died of his injures. Police have not released the name of the officer involved in the shooting
A second video, which was posted on Twitter on Friday, showed Tabares grabbing an object from the officer’s belt as they struggled next to a parked car.
The officer then pulls out his gun and backs away. Another video clip shows Tabares jumping to his feet and he’s almost immediately shot. Six rounds are fired before the officer calls out, ‘get on the ground.’ After a short pause, a final, seventh gunshot is fired and Tabares stumbles backward and collapses against a wall.
Huntington Beach Police Chief Robert Handy said the officer had been forced to defend himself and had the right to fatally shoot the man if he felt his life was in danger.
‘This is clearly an assault on an officer,’ Handy told reporters Friday.
‘I don’t know what preceded that assault, we don’t know that yet, but clearly this person attacked our police officer, and I don’t think that there’s any way an officer is expected to not defend them self and that includes a lethal force at times.’
Police said they are still investigating and released few details of what led to the confrontation.
None of the videos appear to show the suspect holding a gun. The name of the man, who was pronounced dead after Friday’s shooting, was not immediately released.
On Saturday, a police officer in La Verne, about 43 miles away from Huntington Beach, shot and wounded a man who refused to drop what the officer thought could be a weapon and then also wounded a second officer who came to help.
The shooting took place outside this 7-Eleven in Huntington Beach, California, on Friday morning