Bodycam Shows Officer Shooting Armed Carjacking Suspect

The Denver District Attorney’s Office has released the body-camera video from the officer involved in a shooting that injured a 17-year-old boy who was armed and fleeing a carjacked vehicle, which was stolen at gunpoint two days earlier. The video was recorded by Cpl. Jeffrey Heinis’ chest-mounted camera on the night of Aug. 16 near the intersection of 10th and Federal Boulevard. Heinis, who fired 12 shots, earlier this week was found justified in the shooting. Heinis turns on the camera as he is driving and then he approaches the 2005 Volvo that had been carjacked in Arapahoe County. Heinis jumps from the car, his pistol leveled, and begins yelling commands to three underage suspects who were in the vehicle but cannot be seen in the video. “He’s got a gun,” Heinis is heard saying.