Man Aims Rifle at Albuquerque Police, Gets Shot In Groin (Officer Sanchez BWC) – Everything Law and Order Blog

(The action in this video picks up around 9:00. Of the four videos I posted from this incident, I strongly recommend watching at least the intro to the longest of them.)

On August 19, 2018 Albuquerque Police Department received word that suicidal man armed with a gun was threatening to kill his neighbors at 219 Dallas NE. When APD responded at approximately 1:53 p.m. they found 38-year-old Joe Lambert walking into and out of his apartment, sometimes armed with a rifle and frequently yelling at officers that they should kill him.

Officers trained in crisis negotiation spent approximately one and a half hours trying to negotiate with Lambert, successfully reaching him by cell phone around 2:30 pm. At first a female negotiator was in contact with Lambert, but when he began to complain about relationship issues it was decided to have a male negotiator continue. Lambert was described as “very hyped up” and officers had trouble getting him to stay in contact with them, and at approximately 4:00 pm Lambert simply emerged from his apartment bearing his rifle, and instead of ‘just’ yelling at police officers to kill him (as before) he instead raised his rifle and aimed directly at Officer Ian Ross, who fired three shots at Lambert in response. One of those shots struck the rifle Lambert was holding. Lambert continued to walk toward officers still holding his firearm and attempting to aim at officers; in response Officer Richard Whitman fired two additional rounds at Lambert.

Incredibly, one of Whitman’s rounds also struck Lambert’s rifle, but this round ricocheted and hit Lambert in his groin.

I am publishing all of the four primary body-worn camera videos from this incident. They are long, but portions of each capture extremely valuable scenes and conversations, both before and after the metaphorical heat turned up. Additionally, although certain footage has been blurred [for reasons that will become obvious], this is one of the most dramatic examples I have seen of officers rushing to help someone they were just forced to fire upon.

Lambert was treated for his injuries at a local hospital, following which he was booked into Albuquerque’s Metropolitan Detention Center (“MDC”) on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and two counts of assault on a peace officer. Lambert had an extensive criminal history at the time of this incident, including ten DUI arrests and an already-pending case for aggravated battery and burglary.

Neither Officer Whitten nor Officer Ross had ever before been involved in a shooting. Whitten has been an officer for eleven years while Ross has been with Albuquerque Police Department for three years.

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44 thoughts on “Man Aims Rifle at Albuquerque Police, Gets Shot In Groin (Officer Sanchez BWC)”
  1. i´m very pro Police but always wondering how suspects after they get shot should follow orders like crawl toward this and that if they are not not able physically any more casue of the gunshot wound

  2. Okay just buy that one comment family members are starting to involve himself that automatically means everybody there is black including the guy that just got shot

  3. So, the over the shoulder body camera, and sunglasses camera are the best positions for body cameras, preferably both of them in tandem. Aiming firearms gets in the way of many of these cameras. This may very well be intentional however.

  4. Fantastic job by police. One thing I’d like to say – when you have a police issue outside of peoples homes and in their neighborhoods, you don’t have to be a dick when telling them to get back inside. I totally understand why you have to be blunt and to the point, and I respect what you do so much! But “your scene”, for .222222222222% of the time, is our hood where we are raising our families.
    Thank you for everything you do for all of us.

  5. “If you have to 16 him, 16 him”… I think we know what ‘that’ means.

    In certain other situations, one might take that as ‘smoke check him’.

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