Warning: This story contains graphic descriptions and images some viewers may find disturbing. The shooting occurred around 9 p. Police had been in the area responding to an unrelated report of an assault at the nearby MTS Trolley station when gunshots rang out from the train station, prompting officers to head to the scene. Resident calls for more security after deadly shooting involving officer. Shortly after the incident, police said the year-old, whose name has not been released, had been identified as a suspect in the initial shooting.
The video of the incident released by SDPD begins with security camera footage of the initial shooting, which diverted officers from the assault report. In the video, the year-old can be seen walking west through a corridor at Santa Fe Depot with another individual.
The teenager then walked up to two individuals who had been standing at the train platform as his companion crossed to the other side to board an incoming Trolley.
Police said some kind of verbal confrontation ensued between the year-old and the two individuals standing at the west platform, prompting one of the individuals to open fire at the teen while he ran back into the train station, as seen in the security camera footage.
Using a map, police said in the video that the shooter and his companion ran north from the scene along the train tracks. One of the two officers who was on scene responding to the assault β identified as Daniel Gold, who has been with the force for two years β had exited his patrol car parked on Kettner Boulevard less than a minute before the gunshots rang out. Upon hearing the shots, Gold ran towards the corridor to enter Santa Fe Depot, where the teenager had fled after the confrontation on the train platform.
