DAYTON — New police body camera footage shows the moments before two officers shot a 45-year-old man Friday night.
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As reported on News Center 7 at 5:30, Dayton officers responded to a complaint about someone with a weapon in the 900 block of Custer Place twice.
Neighbors called 911 and said a man was threatening them with a gun, but the man was gone when police first arrived.
About a half hour later, the man came back with a weapon that neighbors call “threatening.”
“He got a gun, he got an UZI,” the caller told dispatchers.
The same Dayton officers responded to the area.
Dayton Police Department Chief of Police Kamran Afzal shared body camera footage showing the officers walking around an apartment complex and finding a group of people.
As previously reported on News Center 7, officers spotted the man who had been described to them with a weapon in his right hand.
Afzal identified the man as Eric Grady, 45.
“Drop the gun, drop the gun, drop the gun…” an officer is heard saying on the body camera.
Afzal said Grady pointed the gun at the officers.
One officer fired one shot and the other officer fired three shots.
They placed a tourniquet on the man and medics transported him to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The department shared photos of two handguns they found next to Grady.
One of the firearms had an extended magazine with 46 live rounds. The other handgun had 12 live rounds.
“But 46 live rounds, that’s a drum and that was reported stolen, it was stolen from Dayton,” Afzal said.
News Center 7′s Mike Campbell went to the apartment complex on Monday, but no neighbors wanted to speak about the incident.
Afzal is asking the community to comply with officers, especially when they have a weapon in their hands.
“People keep telling them they don’t have to listen to police officers, I’m going to tell you that’s the wrong message. You have to abide by directions and definitely should not be pointing a gun at anybody, let alone an officer,” Afzal said.
Grady will be facing four preliminary counts of having a weapon under disability, according to Afzal.
We will continue to follow this story.
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