Authorities release video of police shooting

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NEWARK — Authorities released body-worn camera footage Friday night. fatal shooting by police in Newark last month.

The shooting occurred at about 4:45 p.m. on April 13 at Block 39,000 of Cedar Boulevard.

Footage released by Newark and Fremont police shows the officers confronting each other. Elmar Lopez Castaneda, 19, from NewarkWhen he and another person are seated in a Mercedes-Benz sedan backed into a parking space. At the time, Lopez Castaneda was wanted in connection with an armed carjacking in Newark earlier this year.

According to the video, a police officer ordered the driver, Lopez Castaneda, to raise his hands and get out of the vehicle, which he did. Mr. Lopez Castaneda was told to raise his hands and walk towards the officers, but he was instructed to turn around. Officers found what looked like a gun in López Castaneda’s waistband and ordered him to the ground.

Police said the gun turned out to be a full metal replica of the Beretta M9 pistol.

Footage shows Lopez Castaneda lowering his left arm to his waistband and grabbing a replica pistol. In response, a Newark police detective and three Fremont police detectives opened fire on López Castaneda. Three Fremont police officers also fired less-lethal weapons, including a 40mm launcher, police said.

Footage shows the replica pistol flying out of López Castaneda’s hand, hitting the hood of the Mercedes-Benz and landing on the ground. López Castaneda also fell to the ground and police said they were tended to by officers until paramedics arrived.

It took about two seconds for López Castaneda to grab the replica pistol, the officer opened fire, and the replica pistol hit the ground.

Lopez Castaneda was pronounced dead at the scene. The passenger was taken to a local hospital, but police said his injuries were not life-threatening. Police said no passengers were shot.

The four officers who fired commercial weapons last month were Newark Police Detective Trevor Damewood, Fremont Police Detective Anthony Piall, Fremont Police Detective Jesse Hartman, and Fremont Police Detective Thomas Degenstein. was identified.

In addition to body-worn camera footage, police have also released surveillance footage of a carjacking that occurred at Block 5700 on Thornton Avenue on February 14. The footage shows a person dressed in black approaching the driver’s door of the same Mercedes-Benz, while another jumps out of the passenger’s door.

Surveillance footage also included a recording of the 911 call. In the phone call, the man said his car had just been stolen and that the suspect had threatened his son with a knife.