Mayor Greg Fischer's office did not respond to a request for comment Monday about the slow release of information. Fischer's office had expressed the “fullest confidence” in the state police's investigation and previously said KSP agreed to share the footage within 72 hours of the shooting, which came and went Wednesday night. While standard practice for the Louisville department has been to release body camera footage within 24 hours of an officer-involved shooting, Gregory had told The Courier Journal the video would not be released "until vital witnesses can be interviewed and pertinent facts gathered." "We are not leading this investigation, thus it’s inappropriate for us to answer these questions," Sanders said in an email Monday morning. Sanders had cited the state police investigation as the reason why LMPD had not provided any information before Monday afternoon. Louis in February.Īnother letter commended him for finding a missing 17-year-old boy with autism and cerebral palsy and returning him safely to his foster home. One letter in Seeders' file commended him for assisting the Louisville Metro Fire Department in bringing back the bodies of a firefighter, her daughter, her daughter’s friend and the friend's mother who died in a car crash in St. He was treated and released the same night, Sanders said shortly afterward. Sanders said Seeders, who has been employed by LMPD since February 2018, remains on leave pending the investigation, “as well as being injured and is receiving care.” Sanders did not describe the injuries, though Gentry said during last week's briefing that the officer had been taken to the hospital. Standard practice for Louisville Metro Police has been to release the name of officers involved in shootings and place them on administrative reassignment pending investigation shortly after the incident. Transparency and procedures about the release of information have been an issue in the case, the first to be investigated by state police under a new protocol requiring an outside agency to investigate such incidents within LMPD. Gregory said no questions would be answered beyond what was included in the video. The woman who was in the passenger seat and fled the scene had yet to be located, Gentry said at the time. LMPD has not responded to repeated requests for information about whether the woman has been found, and Gregory did not answer the question in his video statement. The vehicle Thurman was driving had been reported stolen, LMPD interim Chief Yvette Gentry said in a press conference in the early morning of Nov. Thurman died at University of Louisville Hospital about 30 minutes after the stop, according to the coroner's office. Gregory said Monday that a woman exited the passenger side of the vehicle just before Thurman backed into Seeders. "He's in the front seat," Seeders says. "He's hit. At the end of the clip, another first responder can be heard asking where Thurman is as the camera faces the pavement. “He discharged his firearm, striking and fatally wounding Brian Thurman.”Ī woman can be heard screaming after the gunshots, but she is not seen in the video. “During the process of attempting to avoid the vehicle, the officer’s wearable video system is dislodged from his uniform,” Gregory said. Seeders' body camera then appears to fall off, and then the gunshots are heard. As Seeders is standing directly behind the car yelling commands, the car hits him.
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Thurman closes his door, the brake lights turn on, and Seeders quickly approaches the back of the vehicle on the driver side, yelling for the driver to stop. After about 25 seconds of not responding, Thurman opens his door and shows two empty hands.Īfter a few more seconds, Thurman begins to exit the SUV, but Seeders tells him to stay in the vehicle and not move.