NEW MEXICO — Farmington Police released video footage showing the violent struggle on Sept. 6 between Officer David Rock and Heriberto Nava-Martinez at San Juan Regional Medical Center moments before the officer shot the suspect. (Scroll down for video)<\/p>\n
WTF reports: “The footage, which is from Rock’s body camera, shows the officer conversing with Martinez in Spanish outside a hospital room shortly after 10 p.m. Sept. 6, less than an hour after Farmington police arrested Nava-Martinez on allegations he crashed a stolen pickup truck through the front gates of a Farmington business and then drove it erratically up and down East Main Street.<\/em><\/p>\n Nava-Martinez, 23, was transported to San Juan Regional Medical Center after the incident due to health concerns and to have his blood tested for drugs and alcohol.<\/p>\n Shortly after the conversation with Rock, the video appears to show Nava-Martinez lunging at the officer, and the men wrestle while Rock calls for help.<\/p>\n The video shows Rock firing three rounds at Nava-Martinez in two separate incidents as Nava-Martinez alternately charges at the officer and then runs away from him.<\/p>\n “Stop! Stop!” Rock can be heard yelling in the video, after shooting Nava-Martinez once. “You cannot go for my gun! Get down! Get down!”<\/p>\n Nava-Martinez eventually drops to the floor while screaming and is handcuffed by Rock, who then calls for a doctor. An activated taser can be seen in the video on the floor near Nava-Martinez. San Juan County Chief Deputy District Attorney Dustin O’Brien said Thursday that he is still waiting on certain medical records before determining whether to criminally charge Rock in the shooting.<\/p>\n But he said he does not expect those records would change his current opinion, which is that Rock was justified in shooting Nava-Martinez.<\/p>\n “I don’t see anything in the medical records that would change what you see and what you hear in the video,” O’Brien said.<\/p>\n Hebbe said Nava-Martinez’s blood test was positive for both methamphetamine and marijuana.<\/p>\n O’Brien said the evidence suggests Nava-Martinez was only shot twice, once in each side of his torso. Nava-Martinez was in critical condition for several days after the shooting, despite receiving almost immediate medical attention.<\/p>\n It also took detectives several days to identify Nava-Martinez, who is a Mexican national.”<\/p>\n The struggle begins around the 4:45 mark in the video.<\/p>\n