The Douglas County Sheriff's Office in Colorado this week released dashboard and body camera video footage from a fatal officer-involved shooting last month.
On Aug. 31 at approximately 4:41 p.m., two deputies initiated a traffic stop after a vehicle made an unsafe turn right in front of them on Highway 85 just North of Delva Way, according to a news release/
The vehicle was occupied by four people, two adult females and two adult males. Upon identifying the driver, it was learned that she was the restrained party listed in a protection order protecting a male who matched the description of the right rear passenger. The two females and one male, who was the front seat passenger, were cooperative with deputies, however, the male in the right rear passenger seat was uncooperative in providing his legal name.
Although the right rear passenger refused to provide deputies with his legal name, he was later identified by the Douglas County Coroner’s Office as 61-year-old Paul Askins with a listed address out of Colorado Springs.
After several attempts to identify Askins deputies asked him to step out of the vehicle. Askins emerged from the vehicle with a pistol pointed at deputies. As he continued to advance out of the vehicle deputies shot Askins multiple times, fatally wounding him.
At the time of the shooting, Askins had two active warrants out of El Paso County, Colorado, one for second degree burglary of a building and the other for Failure to Appear.
The names of the deputies involved have not yet been released and the incident remains under investigation.
