Missouri cops shot a girl 5 instances as she tried to flee getting arrested for a suspected armed carjacking — though she had proven that she was unarmed and instructed them that she was pregnant, in accordance with a horrified witness.
“They shot her! Oh my God, they shot her!” a girl repeatedly cried out in footage she filmed within the aftermath of Friday night time’s officer-involved capturing in Kansas Metropolis.
“What the f–ok!” she gasped as she filmed the shot girl on the bottom. “Oh my God, they shot her and so they nonetheless placing her in handcuffs!”
Police confirmed to KCTV that Leonna Hale, 26, was shot by officers responding to reviews of an armed carjacking at 8 p.m.
The male driver fled when cops pulled him over — and Hale was shot as she additionally tried to flee, Missouri State Freeway Patrol, which is investigating the officer-involved capturing, instructed the outlet.
Nevertheless, the witness who filmed it wrote on Fb that earlier than turning to run, Hale had “put her palms up and was speaking to them to point out she didn’t have a weapon in her hand!!!”
The witness, who solely gave the identify Shédanja, additionally instructed The Kansas Metropolis Star that Hale had solely refused to get on the bottom as a result of she instructed cops that she was pregnant.
“She was gonna cooperate, she received scared, she ran down there and so they shot her … it ain’t proper!” she exclaimed in her video on the scene.
Shédanja did, nonetheless, say that Hale had warned that there was a gun within the automotive. Police later confirmed {that a} handgun was discovered close by.
However “she didn’t pull out a weapon on them,” Shédanja insisted to The Star. “She didn’t also have a stick in her hand.
“One, two, three, 4, 5. I keep in mind it as a result of it didn’t cease. They shot 5 instances,” Shédanja instructed The Star.
“I keep in mind seeing her hit the bottom and I froze,” she mentioned, including her sons — aged one, 10 and 13 — have been all traumatized from seeing it, too.
The Kansas Metropolis Police Division’s interim police chief, Joseph Mabin, instructed KCTV that his officers “by no means need to be in these sort of conditions.”
“It is a vacation weekend. It’s time for associates. Not a time for violence,” he instructed the outlet Friday.
