-Lakeport, CA. -November 16, 2023. Support us on Amazon! https://www.amazon.com/shop/policebodycamvideos Donate to us through Patreon! https://patreon.com/PoliceBodycamVideos? The Lake County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday released bodycam video of a deputy-involved shooting that led to the death of a Lakeport man on Nov. 16. Sheriff’s spokesperson Lauren Berlinn identified the man as Richard Michael Pyorre, 53, Lakeport. Pyorre was a well-known Lakeport businessman, owner of an insurance company, and at one time a wrestling coach for Clear Lake High School. The sheriff’s office’s initial report said that deputies responded to the 100 block of Dixon Drive in Lakeport, just off Highway 175, due to reports of an assault with a knife by a male subject. When the deputies arrived on scene, the report said they contacted the subject — now identified as Pyorre — reportedly responsible for that assault who at that point was armed with a loaded firearm. The sheriff’s office account said the deputies made multiple attempts “to defuse and de-escalate the situation” but Pyorre refused to comply. He was shot and pronounced dead at the scene. The sheriff’s office did not separately release another statement on the fatal shooting on Tuesday. However, the video includes some additional new details, including that the deputies responded to the Dixon Drive residence at about 1:45 p.m. “Upon arrival, deputies found the driveway barricaded with several vehicles and a boat. Deputies entered the property and contacted the alleged suspect of the reported assault,” the video said. Shortly after the deputies contacted Pyorre, the sheriff’s office report said he drew a concealed loaded firearm from his waistband. video begins with fire radio traffic calling out medics from the Lakeport Fire Protection District in response to a phone-in report of an assault on Dixon Drive that possibly involved a knife. Firefighters asked for the sheriff’s office to respond while they staged at 1:37 p.m. What follows is video from two bodycams, one from Sgt. Ben Moore, and the second from Deputy Michael Nakahara. Capt. Chris Chwialkowski is also heard and seen in the video but no bodycam footage is included from him. The deputies approached a large white house, walking around a travel trailer in the front yard. A large German shepherd came around the trailer and started to turn around when Moore sprayed it with pepper spray and it ran away. From around the side of the house comes a figure who appears to be wearing a dark hoodie and jeans. A caption on the video said, “Suspect is drawing the loaded firearm from a holster in his front waistband.” The figure is then seen turning and fleeing around the house with the dog following him. Moore said, “He’s got a gun. He’s got a gun.” From that point on in the video, Pyorre cannot be seen from the vantage point of the bodycams. Moore then called to Pyorre, telling him that he needed to come out and show him his hands, before firing a shot. Moore yelled at Pyorre not to point the gun at them again and asked for cover. In the background, radio traffic can be heard requesting a full call out of a SWAT team from Mendocino County. That radio call went out at 1:56 p.m., according to radio traffic monitored by Lake County News on the day of the incident. Moore continued to call to Pyorre, telling him to let him see his hands and to call out to the deputies. He and the other deputies advanced to the corner of the house, looking toward the backyard. “I see him. He’s up. He’s moving. He still has the gun in his hand. Drop the gun! Drop the gun, Rick! Don’t make us shoot you!” Moore shouted. Moore continued to order Pyorre to drop the gun and to show his hands. As they continued to call to Pyorre, Moore said he could see Pyorre with the gun in his right hand on the other side of the pool in the backyard and was pointing the gun. At that point, the bodycam shifted as another shot was fired, and Moore shouted that the suspect was hit and had fallen into the pool, where he was splashing around. Aerial measurements of the property conducted with Google maps indicate that Pyorre was about 100 feet away from Moore when he was shot. Moore’s bodycam video indicates that approximately three minutes and 43 seconds elapsed from the time he confronted the dog to shooting Pyorre. Radio traffic indicated that Pyorre was shot at 1:59 p.m., and that there had been reports of other people up the hill from the house seeing him go into the pool after being shot. Nakahara’s bodycam showed him following Moore and remaining behind some objects alongside the travel trailer before joining Moore and a third individual — believed to be Chwialkowski — at the corner of the house. After the bodycam videos end, a picture is shown of Pyorre’s body — with his face covered with a black box — in the pool, with his right hand still clutching what the sheriff’s office said was a loaded handgun.