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A Las Vegas man who was fatally shot by a police officer Tuesday hid in a bedroom closet before lunging at officers with an 8-inch butcher knife. Metropolitan Police Department Assistant Sheriff Tim Kelly briefed reporters on the incident Thursday morning, saying officers responded to a western valley apartment complex after receiving calls about a domestic violence incident. Kelly played a short clip at the briefing of a neighbor’s 911 call as well as footage from two officers’ body-worn cameras. The Police Department identified the officer who fired his gun as Officer Kyle Prior, 28. Officers were dispatched to the Bella Vida Apartments complex, on South Cimarron Road and West Charleston Boulevard, at 12:14 a.m. Tuesday. Kelly said the officers spent nearly 10 minutes knocking on the door of the apartment before a woman and a 4-year-old child answered. The woman told the officers there was no one else in the apartment, but officers suspected there was a man inside based on the 911 call. The officers went inside the apartment to look for the man. Footage from the body-worn cameras shows the officers walking through the dark apartment by flashlight. “They could tell someone was inside the residence,†Kelly said.
In the master bedroom’s walk-in closet, officers discovered Pedro Ramirez, 28, of Las Vegas, crouched behind some hanging clothes clutching a stainless steel-handled kitchen knife. The officers immediately issued commands for the man to come out and to drop the knife. Two officers fired their Tasers at the man, but he shrugged it off and ran out of the closet, brandishing the knife. Prior fired three rounds at Ramirez at 12:39 a.m., striking him with each round. Ramirez died at University Medical Center from multiple gunshot wounds. Metro said the man’s wife had visible injuries from a fight with her husband. She told officers Ramirez hid in the closet because he did not want to go to jail. Kelly said the department had responded to two previous domestic violence incidents involving Ramirez in 2016 and 2015. Prior has been placed on routine administrative paid leave as the shooting is investigated. This is the second deadly shooting involving the officer, who joined Metro in 2008 as a civilian employee and became an officer in 2012. In 2015, the Review-Journal reported that Prior, along with two other officers, shot and killed 32-year-old Thomas McEniry.
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He was given amble opportunity to drop it he didn't. The woman and her 4 yr old are better off.
When people are in mental crisis they can't process simple information, they're mentally checked-out already. It's a lose-lose for everybody.
Who is here in 2021? I found this channel and I now understand what a crack addiction is like.
I love this video use it to cheer me up on a bad day
R.I.P. Pauly D
that aparment have too many small rooms and too many doors
Police are murderers
you hear the woman scream in the background
No Warrant📃 No Entry🙅ðŸ¾â€â™‚ï¸
Why this shooting is right :
-Woman lied when asked if there is anyone else.
-Man didn't comply when asked to say something.
-Man didn't comply when asked to get out of the closet.
-Man didn't comply when asked to show his hands.
-Man didn't comply when asked to drop the knife.
-Man didn't stop when non lethal methods were used (Taser).
-Man charged at the officers with a knife.
I love the fact that they used their tasers first, they gave him every opportunity. Big shout to the officers for that! As soon as one step was made in the their direction they had every right to shoot pretty simple stuff here.
man I didn't know George St-Pierre was shot dead by police in 2017
Reminiscent of those tense scenes from alien where they walk around the passageways with a motion sensor.
Thats police brutality. Why didnt they close the door and gas him with sleeping gas
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He came at the officers swinging the knife. Officers gave warnings to drop it and even tasered him. No point in talking him down after that point.
The dude in the thumbnail looks like smeagol.
They should have arrested the woman for lying when she said it was just her and her kid. She could have got one (or both) of the officers killed if he had ambushed them in the dark.
One way to self deport. Just saved a lot of tax payers money…thnx dudeðŸ‘ðŸ»
Well, he finally came out of the closet.
I might be wrong but something tells me he'd have been a lot better off had he dropped the knife.
BATTLEFIELD HARDLINE
Dont play hide and seek with the cops, they dont appreciate it
I have seen just as many failures as I have successes from TASER deployment watching PoliceActivity. Guns work every time.
If anyone is in here say something … nothing…gets shot and a random lady somewhere screaming in the house lol
I hated searching homes because of this reason. If we had a k9 in the area, we had them go in with us.
This is why you don't bring a knife to a gun fight.
I wonder if this woman moved onto another abusive relationship?
Suitcase on bed. I bet she was gonna leave him and he snapped.
My favorite ending. No taxpayer funded jail time
Man shot by police coming out of the closet is going viral for sure.
Jeez! That apartment only had around four rooms, but there were fifteen doors in each room. I kept waiting for a Minotaur, to jump out.
I was expecting an immediate drop shot but no.. these guys gave him several chances to survive.
WhY dOnT tHeY TaZe HiM … oh wait they tazed him and the still came at the officeres
Great job officers well executed
News Flash — Yet another stupido latino brings a knife to a gun fight. He's now digging a ditch with no hole in Hell. Told to drop the knife by three officers armed with at least 35 bullets in their first magazines, he charges with his shiny blade. His blood was shiny on the dumpy carpet.
Why don't they show the ending?
Boy, that – for lack of a better term – white noise sure as hell adds to the intensity, doesn’t it?
If you don’t comply you may die.
Why don’t they just open up the lights?
Another kill by the biggest gang in the world. Pew pew
these are brutal
SWEEEEET………………………
CNN: Man holding harmless kitchen utensil brutally murdered by Las Vegas police. Next on Don Lemon.
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