Footage released Friday by the San Diego Police Department shows a 16-year-old boy running from a shooting at Santa Fe Depot just before he was fatally shot by a responding officer last month.
The incident occurred on Jan. 28 just after 8:50 p.m. at the MTS station in downtown San Diego.
A video released by the department contains footage from a security camera that shows the moments prior to the police shooting.
In the silent security footage, the 16-year-old boy, whose name has not been released, can be seen walking with another person down a corridor from Kettner Boulevard toward the train platform.
The other person crosses the tracks onto the opposite side of the platform leaving the 16-year-old with two other people who had already been standing on the platform.
The teen walks toward the two other people and appears to speak with them before one of the two subjects produces a gun and fires at the teen, who immediately runs away back down a corridor toward Kettner Boulevard.
The shooting suspect and the other person run in the opposite direction.
The video then shows body camera footage from Officer Daniel Gold, who had been in the area responding to an unrelated assault call at nearby American Plaza Station.
The body camera footage, which is partly without audio, shows Gold exit his police unit in front of Santa Fe Depot on Kettner Boulevard and walk slowly toward West Broadway, pulling out his phone to make a call.
Gold then suddenly turns around, apparently reacting to the gunshots on the train platform, and jogs toward the corridor leading to the platform.
The teen then enters Gold’s field of view, sprinting out of the corridor toward the roadway.
“Whoa,” Gold says, firing his gun at the teen almost immediately.
According to a timestamp on the body-worn camera footage, approximately one second passes between when the teen first appears from out of the corridor and Gold fires his weapon.
The teen doubles over and screams before falling out of the camera’s view behind a police unit.
“San Diego Police,” Gold says.
The teen was transported to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
A firearm was allegedly found “concealed under clothing in the juvenile’s right thigh area,” San Diego Police said.
Police arrested a 16-year-old boy in connection with the shooting on Feb. 6.
“While it’s never easy to watch this kind of footage, our department remains committed to transparency and ensuring a fair, thorough, independent investigation,” San Diego Police Chief Scott Wahl said in a statement.
The shooting is under investigation by the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office under a county policy that mandates agencies do not investigate their own shootings.
The sheriff’s office had said that Gold had “encountered” the teen and that the shooting happened “during the encounter.”
The sheriff’s office has not released the name of the teen who was killed in the incident, stating that “it is standard practice of the Sheriff’s Office not to release names of juveniles.”
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