Bodycam footage released of deadly shooting involving Buffalo Police officer
BUFFALO, N.Y. – The man shot and killed by Buffalo Police Wednesday morning was under indictment for an attempted shooting back in April.
That’s according to News10NBC’s affiliate WGRZ.
Daevon Roberts, 25, was shot during a traffic stop that Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said “rapidly evolved.”
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It happened along Kensington Avenue near Poultney Avenue just after midnight.
Roberts was stopped by officers Ronald Ammerman and Jonathan Crawford.
Police released bodycam footage Thursday. In it, Ammerman tells Roberts he stopped him for speeding, having tinted windows, and having a child in the front seat, unbuckled. Roberts tells Ammerman it’s his six-year-old cousin.
The child mentions it’s his birthday.
The officer asks for a license, and Roberts shows him a screenshot on his cell phone of a Georgia license, saying it’s valid.
At one point, Roberts says there’s nothing in the car. The boy says, “You can search the back.”
Crawford stays on the passenger side of the car, talking to the boy, while Ammerman runs his license.
After Ammerman returns from his cruiser can’t verify the screenshot of the license. Meanwhile, Roberts says he is on the phone with the boy’s mom.
When Ammerman can’t verify his license, he tells Roberts to step out of the car and come towards him. He tells him he will run his name a different way to try to verify his license. When the officer opens the car door and tells Roberts to put his phone down, Roberts floors it.
Ammerman hangs on, yelling, “You’re gonna kill me! You’re gonna kill me. You’re gonna kill me! Look out! Look out! Look out!”
The little boy screams and it looks like Roberts and the officer are tussling while the car is still going. Roberts yells “Stop!” and you can hear five shots.
Roberts is then seen facedown in the road, moaning, as Ammerman calls over his radio, “Shots fired! There’s a kid in the car still! He tried killing me!”
Ammerman runs to the car to check on the boy.
“Come here, come here, come here, baby. Come here!”
The child asks for his phone.
“You okay?”
“Yes,” the boy replies.
“You’re okay,” Ammerman says, holding him.
Buffalo Police say they found a loaded gun under the driver’s seat of the car.
Both officers are on leave.
Buffalo Police spokesperson Michael DeGeorge said in a statement that homicide detectives and Internal Affairs are conducting separate investigations into the incident and that the New York State Attorney General’s Office of Special Investigations has been notified.
Roberts is the brother of Jaylen Griffin, a 12-year-old who went missing and whose remains were found in April.
Watch the full video from Buffalo Police here.