Footage shows man killed by NOPD fired first, told LEOs, ‘Shoot me’
By: Emily Lane, NOLA Media Group
NEW ORLEANS — A man killed by police gunfire in New Orleans East earlier this month shot at the New Orleans Police Department officers before they fired back, body camera footage released Tuesday (May 28) shows. A family member of the man who viewed the footage last week said it shows he was in the midst of a mental episode leading up to and at the time of the fatal encounter.
Donald Davis, Jr., 40, was fatally shot May 17 the 6800 block of Parc Brittany Boulevard on May 17. NOPD Superintendent Shaun Ferguson said officers were called that morning to investigate a report of an aggravated assault at an apartment complex’s leasing office when they encountered an armed man.
Note: Footage below comes from surveillance video recorded at the apartment complex where the fatal shooting occurred, and the leasing office where an incident prompted the initial call to police. NOPD made available officers’ body worn camera footage, but NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune is choosing not to publish it because of its graphic nature.
