On January 18, 2016, Daniel Leetin Shaver of Granbury, Texas, was fatally shot by police officer Philip Brailsford in the hallway of a La Quinta Inn & Suites hotel in Mesa, Arizona. Police were responding to a report that a rifle had been pointed out of the window of Shaver's hotel room.

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Daniel Shaver begged for his life before he was shot by Philip Brailsford, according to reports released by Mesa Police on March 29.

Shaver said “please don’t shoot me,” and “please don’t shoot,” a witness and a transcription of police footage reveals.

Brailsford and other officers had instructed Shaver to crawl toward them with his hands in the air, according to police reports. They said he reached behind his back he would be shot. Brailsford said he opened fire after Shaver reached toward his waistline, possibly to pull up his shorts, according to police reports.

Brailsford told investigators he thought Shaver was trying to get a better firing position and when he reached backwards, the officer fired.

“So that’s when I assessed the threat. I fired my weapon, uh, five times,” Brailsford told investigators.

Police previously said Shaver was cooperative, but may have been confused by the officer’s directions because he had been drinking.

The supplemental report released by police can be read below or by clicking here:

You can read the rest of the documents police have released from the case below or by clicking here:

They have also released the 911 calls from the shooting, which can be heard below:

In the 911 calls, a hotel employee told dispatchers “we’ve got some scared people,” but no one was injured.

“A couple of the guests – I’m an employee – they’ve come to me and they’ve told me that somebody is pointing a rifle outside of one of the windows in our building,” the hotel staffer said.

The staffer then tells police they believe it is room 502, where Shaver was staying.

A woman and a man who were staying at the hotel told police they met Shaver in the hallway and went to his room to take shots of alcohol. While in the room, he took out a pellet gun and said it was his job to kill birds that get inside Walmart stores.

The woman told police Shaver and the other man were pointing the rifle outside the hotel window before police arrived, and she told them to stop because they were drunk.

source: ifunny

Original article on HeavyD: https://xme.link/u/mfkmx Archive Copy: https://archive.ph/deWjy

Other information: - Daniel Shaver's Spouse Plea on Reddit: https://xme.link/u/aw0hm - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Daniel_Shaver - https://xme.link/u/vbg3m - Docketbird Court Records

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