OKCPD shares video related to arrest and routine leave of officers
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – The Oklahoma City Police Department released video Friday related to a shooting investigation that has left six officers on routine paid leave and a man in jail.
Authorities responded to the call on April 12, in the 200 block of SE 54th St. Officers were told there was man in the neighborhood shooting a gun outside.
When officers arrived they found Juan Castorenna-Guerrero, and asked him to come outside of a home he was in at the time.
New video released of the call shows Castorenna-Guerrero coming outside of the property with some kind of object in his hand.
Police said that object was a weapon, but video provided makes the object difficult to make out.
The video shows police firing a non-lethal round at Castorenna-Guerrero. The video also shows Castorenna-Guerrero pointing the object at officers even after they’ve identified themselves.
Audio from an officer’s body camera video records a request from an officer for Castorenna-Guerrero to “drop the gun.”
Audio can then be heard of multiple weapons being fired at once.
Police said when Castorenna-Guerrero didn’t drop the object, officers fired their weapons toward him while he ran back into the house.
Police said, after several minutes, Castorenna-Guerrero exited the home without the object and surrendered to officers.
Castorenna-Guerrero was not struck by the officers’ gunfire, according to police.
“That’s crazy to me,” said neighbor Jordan Motteler. “I just really don’t understand how six officers can fire, and I’m sure they emptied their clips, into a house and never hit somebody.”
Motteler said she was home the night of the shooting, watching as law enforcement swarmed her block before being instructed to go inside and stay there.
“We saw the coroner pull up, we thought, oh, God, there’s somebody [who] got hurt,” said Motteler. “It was almost like it was a movie, if you want to be honest.”
Castorenna-Guerrero was arrested and booked into the Oklahoma County Detention Center on four counts of pointing a firearm on a $400,000 bond.
The six officers who fired their weapons are on routine paid leave until the investigation concludes.
Oklahoma City Police emphasized the investigation is still in its early stages.
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