Witnesses said he was unarmed and shot in the back.
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A video that has since gone viral on social media shows the man walking away from officers and going around the vehicle to get inside. While the man is entering the vehicle the video shows an officer firing a gun at the man inside the vehicle. A woman in the video is screaming as he is being shot.
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It was not immediately known whether the man had a weapon.
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Residents who live across the street from the residence said while they have heard gunfire in the neighborhood before, never that close until Sunday.
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“We’ve never had anything like this happen before,” said Juventino Camputano who has lived in the neighborhood for 40 years.
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Annie Louise Hurst, a 50-year resident of the neighborhood, just shook her head.
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“This is just a tragedy. It’s just so sad,” she said.
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“There’s never been nothing like this before,” said her husband John.
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As people from the neighborhood and outside the neighborhood ventured toward the scene, more law enforcement officers arrived, adding at least two more buffer zones with crime scene tape boundaries.
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A vehicle with an amplifier blaring an NWA song momentarily encouraged the crowd to chant expletives at officers standing guard in the street. From time to time, people would approach the officers expressing anger for shooting the man while they brought out camera phones to record their actions.
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