New Video Shows Texas Deputies Shoot Man

Dec. 12, 2015
The Bexar County Sheriff's Office on Friday released a second video and 911 audio of a fatal deputy-involved shooting from August.

The Bexar County, Texas Sheriff's Office on Friday released a second video and 911 audio of a fatal deputy-involved shooting from August.

Deputies Greg Vasquez and Deputy Robert Sanchez responded to a domestic disturbance report in the 24400 block of Walnut Pass on Aug. 28 when they shot and killed Gilbert Flores in front of a residence, according to KSAT-TV.

The news station previously obtained and released another video from the shooting that officials claimed didn't show everything that transpired.

In the video, Flores can be seen walking in front of the home and is shown picking up a Taser that the deputies tried to use to subdue him. Shortly before he is shot, the man can be seen walking from the front of the home toward a Sheriff's SUV parked on the street.

Flores then walked toward the deputies before walking back toward the SUV. He then walks to end of the driveway and lifts his hands before being shot.

Bexar County Sheriff's officials have said that the deputies tried unsuccessfully to use non-lethal force to subdue the man.

The 911 recordings show that the first call began with a cry for help from his mother.

Listen to the Recordings

"Please send the police over here. My son has gone crazy and he beat up his wife and she's bleeding," Flores' mother says to a dispatcher.

During one of the calls, Flores told dispatchers that he planned to die that day at the hands of law enforcement officers.

Bexar County Sheriff's Spokesman James Keith said the incident shows that deputies can't always prepare for what will happen until they arrive on the scene.

"The reality is deputies don't truly know what they're walking into until they arrive there on the scene," Keith said. "In this situation you clearly hear Gilbert Flores talking about suicide by cop,"

A grand jury decided on Wednesday not to indict the two deputies in Flores' killing.

The man's family is pursuing a civil lawsuit against the Bexar County Sheriff's Office and the county.

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