Police release video of officer-involved shooting from early May

555 Milwaukee police on Friday released body cam and surveillance video of the fatal officer-involved shooting of a man on Milwaukee's south side. Cesar Tomix Sarmiento-Molina, 34, was shot May 7 in the 700 block of West Windlake Avenue after pulling a gun on three officers conducting surveillance in an unmarked squad car, according to police. The brief body cam video begins moments after the shooting and shows Sarmiento-Molina lying on the pavement of a parking lot near the officers' squad. A firearm, described by a police official as a fully-loaded .40 caliber Glock semi-automatic handgun, can be seen on the pavement near Sarmiento-Molina. The body cam was not activated until just after the shooting because recording is not required during surveillance or other non-enforcement activities, Captain Thomas Casper of the police department's homicide division says in the video's narration. The officers were conducting surveillance after a tip that a homicide suspect, Victor Citron, was in the area, Casper says. Cintron, 23, was later arrested and charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the fatal shooting of Jose L. Rodriguez-Castro, 22, on May 3. Police also released private surveillance video recorded from a distance that shows Sarmiento-Molina and another man approach the officers squad before Sarmiento-Molina collapses and the second man flees on foot. The second man was apprehended but later released without charges. The shooting remains under an investigation by the Milwaukee Area Investigative Team led by the Waukesha Police Department.

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