hi I'm Sergeant Sharonda grant with the Milwaukee Police Department I'm the public information officer and I also oversee the office of public relations when Alfonso Morales became Milwaukee's police chief in February of 2018 one of his goals for a law enforcement organization was to rebuild community trust recognizing that transparency facilitates increased trust between law enforcement officers and the community we serve chief Morales created what he is titled community briefings to provide information to the public regarding critical incidents that involve our agency community briefings are intended to provide you our community with relevant video footage audio recordings photographs and other evidence regarding the incident based upon our understanding of an officer-involved shooting or other critical incident that involves members of our agency our goal is to release these briefings as soon as possible unless releasing such information would jeopardize the integrity of the investigation when watching this video please keep in mind that this investigation may be active and ongoing nonetheless the Milwaukee Police Department wants to brief our community regarding this incident the images and information you are about to see are disturbing for privacy purposes we have concealed the identity of the citizens captured in this video when police members use force to arrest the subject or defend against an attack that can be graphic and difficult to watch in addition you may hear strong language used by those in this video viewer discretion is advised hello I'm Tom Casper captain of the Homicide Division of the Milwaukee Police Department in this community briefing I'm going to provide you with a brief overview of a fatal officer-involved shooting that occurred during the evening hours of Saturday February 29th 2020 within Police District number 5 at 340 West reservoir Avenue in this incident Milwaukee police officers were dispatched to a subject with a gun complaint at a bar located at 340 West reservoir Avenue one caller provided a description of the suspect and stated he was armed with a black handgun 9-1-1 operator 45 where's your emergency Lounge 340 at 3:47 or braver Bowen Street before we say the address on my time 340 board word is it Easter West um I want to play through the water okay okay and okay what why not um somebody is being able to gun jumping on a woman okay and we're into domestic these are the bars of the mystical personname of the bar around 340 if we are doing okay okay and what you describe him Oh every meal black meal Oh about 40 40 okay can you tell well so he's wearing all black yeah my cold black shirt black pants though and he had one here tonight but I look like a guava black good okay okay and you said how about how hard you look oh let me see I'm come to call my cell phone he's about body on it okay let me jump on the female okay anything tonight you didn't every bill security broke it up and he pulled out a good okay we she jumped on a female Jimmy and hitting her yes he beat her up he body found on the ground they didn't the security block it up so he can I run I'm not fooled the officers arrived at the scene from the north and parked their squads on vel Phillips Avenue the officers were in full uniform and were equipped with body worn cameras as the officers walked south near the front door of the bar a male subject pointed a handgun at them both officers fired their duty weapons and the suspect was struck multiple times despite life-saving efforts the suspect was pronounced dead at the scene next to the suspects body was his firearm a black Taurus 9-millimeter handgun both officers were equipped with body-worn cameras the clip you are about to see is from one of the officers who discharged his service weapon the clip begins as the officer exits his squad car and stops just after the shooting when watching the video from the body-worn camera you will notice there was no sound for the first 30 seconds when a camera is activated the system retrieves what the camera saw in the 30 seconds prior to it being activated the time the sound begins in the video is the moment the officer activated the camera you five economies the investigation showed that the suspect and his wife were at a gathering at the bar during the evening the suspect asked to speak to his wife outside and during the conversation he pushed his wife to the ground and got on top of her another male intervened and got the suspect off the wife went back into the bar and hid in the basement before being driven away by friends it was then that the suspect looked for his wife in the bar and approached a parked car outside of the bar the suspect broke one window in the vehicle and fired one shot it was immediately after that when police arrived and confronted the suspect the bar at 3:40 West's reservoir has surveillance cameras inside and outside of the business the clips you are about to see are from the exterior cameras the first clip shows the suspect walk up to a parked vehicle and with his pistol break the front passenger window and fire one shot you the second clip shows the actions as the officers were approaching the suspect more than once points a handgun at the officers you at the time of this incident the suspect was prohibited from possessing a firearm due to multiple felony convictions in the state of Illinois this incident is being investigated by the Milwaukee area investigative team and the investigation is being led by the Waukesha Police Department the Milwaukee Police Department's Internal Affairs Division is also conducting an investigation which is ongoing you