Overview
- The Richfield Police Department released the unedited body-worn camera video Monday, offering the first public look at the shooting and warning viewers about graphic content.
- Officers had responded to a reported car prowler April 29 on the 7500 block of Morgan Avenue South before spotting Desaver Hollis nearby and starting a foot chase.
- Sgt. Mario Leon’s camera shows him tackling Hollis during the pursuit and then suffering a gunshot wound to the hand.
- A second officer’s camera shows Sgt. Kristian Schultz drop a Taser and fire after a gun appears in Hollis’s hand while Leon lies wounded on the ground.
- The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is conducting an independent use-of-force investigation that will go to the Hennepin County Attorney, and Hollis’s family has retained civil rights counsel and requested full records.