An unhinged California man who charged a cop with a shovel outside an elementary school was gunned down after he continued to swing at the officer despite warning shots, shocking bodycam video shows. The incident occurred in Anaheim.
An officer responded to a 911 call reporting a suspicious man who was wielding a brick and a shovel around 12:45 p.m. on Sept. 15.
The man, identified as 36-year-old Rudy Anthony Martinez II, sprinted toward the officer when he saw the cop car across an intersection.
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The bodycam footage shows the unnamed officer shout “oh shit” after spotting Martinez.
The officer barely steps out of his cruiser when the madman starts swinging the weapon.
He shouts for Martinez to stand down—yelling “sit down!” and “you’re gonna get shot!”—but Martinez keeps slashing at the air, advancing toward him.
The officer fires two warning shots, yet Martinez keeps coming.
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That’s when the Anaheim cop opens fire.
“When the officer arrived and encountered the subject, an officer-involved shooting occurred,” said the Anaheim Police Department in a press release.
The school, John Marshall Elementary, went into lockdown when the shooting happened near the parking lot, but police said that no students witnessed the shooting.
After shooting Martinez, the officer administered first aid until paramedics arrived, according to police.
Martinez died 30 minutes after arriving at the hospital.
The incident comes after ‘Radicalized’ teen wounded two students in Colorado high school shooting. A teenage boy, radicalized by an unspecified “extremist network” fired a revolver multiple times during an attack at a suburban Denver high school, authorities said. The firing wounded two students.
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