Video footage released on Friday showed the incident which took place last week. It showed that the 17-year-old girl was killed by a California police officer, appears to be pointing a replica gun at the officer while she was shot down. The graphic video was released by the Fullerton police department following questions from the teen’s family that showed Hannah Williams collapsing and pleading for help after she was shot on July 5.
The video also showed the replica gun can be seen lying next to her. Audio of an emergency call that was made about 90 minutes after the shooting by the teen’s father, Benson Williams, to report his daughter missing, was also released by the Police on Friday. In the audio, Williams can be heard tearfully telling the dispatcher in the call that he fears his daughter might harm herself and that she was on anti-depressants.
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According to the police, the deadly encounter unfolded after the officer involved in the shooting spotted the teen driving at high speed on a freeway as he was taking his K-9 dog to the veterinarian. Noticing this, he chased her vehicle and attempted to stop her, but at some point, she made an abrupt U-turn into oncoming traffic and skidded to a stop facing the wrong way.
The video footage showed the officer exiting his car and walking around the van Williams was driving. As he approaches the driver’s side of the vehicle, he is confronted by Williams who can be seen walking towards him with her arms outstretched in a “shooting stance.” Then shots were fired and Williams is seen collapsing on the ground and pleading for help.
The circumstances around the shooting have been questioned by the teen’s family and have called for state authorities to launch an independent investigation.
Earlier, it was reported that the California teen, Hannah Williams encountered a Fullerton police officer while driving in the nearby city of Anaheim.
Hannah’s sister, Nyla, 19, told reporters, “We just need to know what happened that night because they haven’t told us anything, nothing. Everything I’ve learned is from media or on Twitter, like everything. No one comes to talk to us.”
The family claimed through Merritt that Hannah had no history with weapons, nor did she have any known issues with drugs or alcohol. The teen was an inexperienced driver and may never have been on the freeway before. The family has demanded that the officer’s body camera footage be released, if not to the public then at least to the family.
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