This is the second video in a deep-dive series into multiple officer-involved shootings. Rather than start off with video of the incident itself, the first video opened with footage of the involved officer being interviewed by New Mexico’s Officer-involved Incident Task Force, offering a perspective rarely seen or heard by the public: that of the officer who fired their weapon. This video opens with the last five minutes of the officer's interview before the Task Force, and then shifts to one officer’s body-worn camera. The male subject, Charles Ray Campolla, 34, of the 1300 block of Lees Drive in Las Cruces, has since been charged with with one count of aggravated assault upon a peace officer. The charge is a third-degree felony. The officer has been cleared of wrongdoing with regard to the shooting. As you heard in Part I, at about 3:30 am on Sunday, September 23, 2018 Las Cruces Police were dispatched to a report of a domestic disturbance at Campolla’s home that he shares with his girlfriend and her teenage daughter. The daughter had called 911 to report that Campolla was armed with a pistol and was threatening others. It was the tenth time that year that officers had been called to that home. Three Las Cruces police officers arrived to find Campolla barefoot and outside the home. The officers gave multiple commands for Campolla to show his hands but he refused to do so. At some point, Campolla pointed a gun at one of the officers, who fired as Campolla ducked in front of the vehicle parked in the driveway. Campolla was not struck, and spent the next hour-plus shouting in protest of having been shot at, repeating a number of times that he didn’t even have a weapon. Campolla would later retract that claim, after officers located his gun hidden - right where he had ducked down - resting atop the driver’s-side front tire of the car in the driveway.

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