Dramatic body camera footage shows the moment a police officer begs for her life after a deranged half-naked suspect stole her gun moments before a fatal shooting in California.
In the disturbing video, the unidentified officer is heard pleading, “Please don’t shoot me!” following the confrontation with 26-year-old Osean McClintock in Fountain Valley, Orange County.
“You’re saved in Jesus’ name forever,” a shirtless McClintock rants over and over as he is shown ripping the handgun out of the screaming officer’s hands in chilling footage released by the Fountain Valley Police Department on Wednesday.
Earlier in the same video, McClintock is first confronted by another officer who was called to reports of someone trying to get into an occupied car near Kazuo Masuda Middle School on Jan. 24.
At first, the pair has a calm conversation, as McClintock is seen on a grassy median.
“You’re not in trouble or anything, man. I just need to talk to you,” the officer tells McClintock, who appears disoriented.
“Can you take me to Jonathan’s?” McClintock asks as he approaches the officer.
“OK. We’ll figure that out. Just take a seat for me,” the officer replies, before asking, “What’s wrong? You’ve got no shirt on.”
But after being asked again by the officer to take a seat in the squad car, McClintock’s behavior suddenly switches.
“I don’t have to,” he snaps, before the officer replies, “Yes, you do.”
Suddenly, McClintock makes a run for it, while chanting, “In Jesus’ name, I pray forever. Amen,” and running to a nearby gas station and then to a bank before going into a parking lot.
After a few minutes of searching the lot, the cop’s partner spots McClintock fighting with the officer and begins sprinting toward the pair.
“She’s in a fight. Code 3,” he says, signifying an emergency response.
The officer approaches McClintock, who at this point has wrestled the female officer’s gun from her hands.
“Put it down, dude! Put it down! Hey! Put it down!” the male officer yells at McClintock, who ignores the instructions and gets into the squad car of the female officer, who had hidden behind an adjacent van.
The male officer fires 10 shots in total at McClintock, who slumps over in the driver’s seat of the vehicle.
McClintock died at the scene, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office and the Fountain Valley Police Department, which are both investigating the shooting.
No officers were injured in the incident.
McClintock’s family has started a GoFundMe to raise money for a funeral for him.
“Our family is overwhelmed with suffering from the loss of Osean,” the appeal reads, adding that, “He would walk through the parks every night looking for anyone to help which included the neighbors and the homeless.”
McClintock had reportedly lost two close relatives in the months leading up to his death and struggled from various health issues, including hemophilia, joint swelling and muscle bleeds.
“Osean was able to handle a lot of pain but sometimes it was too much for him,” the appeal continues, describing McClintock as “a Son, Brother, Uncle, Friend, and a Servant of God.”
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