-Sioux City, IA. -January 08, 2024. Support us using **Super Thanks** next to the **share** button. Support us on Amazon! https://www.amazon.com/shop/policebodycamvideos Donate to us through Patreon! https://patreon.com/PoliceBodycamVideos? During a news conference Tuesday afternoon, Woodbury County Attorney James Loomis discussed a shooting that took back in January at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino parking ramp. Loomis said Sioux City police officers shot and killed 55-year-old Salvador Perez-Garcia. After an investigation by the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI), Loomis said the two officers were justified in the shooting and no charges would be filed. According to Loomis, the series of events that would lead to this shooting started Monday, Jan. 8 at about 1:06 a.m. Loomis says it was at this time that Perez-Garcia drove his Ford pickup truck into Hard Rock’s parking ramp. “Perez-Garcia was banned from casino property in June of 2023 for repeated thefts,” said Loomis during the news conference. “When he arrived that early morning on the casino property, he was again trespassing.” Over the next three hours and leading up to the shooting, Loomis said Perez-Garcia’s actions were “erratic, targeted, aggressive and violent.” Authorities also believe during these hours he had taken methamphetamine. At about 3:41 a.m. a Sioux City police officer arrived at the parking ramp and parked inside on the second level. Loomis says the officer was at the parking ramp conducting surveillance for a matter not relating to Perez-Garcia in any way. “It is clear that the officer did not know that Mr. Perez-Garcia was there but that Mr. Perez-Garcia knew the officer was there,” said Loomis. “At 3:52 a.m. and over the next few minutes, Mr. Perez-Garcia threw papers out of the driver-side and passenger-side windows of his pickup truck. These papers, written in Spanish, referenced how the police are ‘corrupt’ and the casino is ‘culpable.’” Security footage shows at around 3:56 a.m. Perez-Garcia rammed his pickup truck into the officer’s parked vehicle. “The collision was violent enough to deploy the airbags of the officer’s patrol car and Mr. Perez-Garcia’s pickup truck,” said Loomis. “The collision disabled the officer’s patrol car and shoved it into a concrete wall. The officer was slightly injured and trapped inside his patrol car.” After this initial collision, Loomis says Perez-Garcia backed up his pickup and rammed into the officer’s vehicle again. He then drove his pickup down the ramp. By 3:57 a.m. other officers had arrived at the parking ramp, responding to Perez-Garcia ramming the police vehicle. Loomis says Perez-Garcia purposely rammed into one of the responding patrol cars that was stopped in the parking ramp. Authorities say what happened after this collision happened in about 17 seconds. “Officers immediately got out of their patrol cars, Mr. Perez-Garcia immediately got out of his pickup truck,” said Loomis.” Mr. Perez-Garcia was armed with a dangerous weapon. The weapon has a metal handle with a considerable length of chain. Attached to the end of the chain is a weighted metal object.” Loomis says one of the two officers who had gotten out of their patrol cars ordered Perez-Garcia to “get on the ground,” “drop it” and “back up.” “Mr. Perez-Garcia attacked one officer by swinging his weapon wildly at him, the officer retreated,” explained Loomis. “Another officer attempted to go hands-on to get him into custody but Mr. Perez-Garcia attacked him with his weapon as well, causing him to retreat. The two officers who were attacked with the weapon responded by firing their handguns.” Officers attempted life-saving procedures on Perez-Garcia but he was pronounced dead at the scene. Sioux City Police Chief Rex Mueller confirmed the two officers fired 11 rounds total, and 9 of them hit Perez-Garcia. An autopsy later confirmed Perez-Garcia died from multiple gunshot wounds. The Iowa DCI was brought in to investigate this shooting. Their investigation has since been completed and after reviewing their findings, Loomis determined the two officers were justified in shooting Perez-Garcia.