06-24-2019, 12:59 PM
Sacramento, CA.
Sacramento police officials released jarring bodycam footage during a news conference Friday night regarding the shooting death of 26-year-old officer Tara O’Sullivan on Wednesday. Rest in peace.
Chief Daniel Hahn and began wtth police showing body cam footage of an officer, with a gun drawn, knocking on the door of a garage before gunfire erupts from behind. The video went on to show the officer, identified as O’Sullivan’s training officer, Daniel Chipp, taking cover and broadcasting the gunman’s use of a high-powered rifle.
“The officers were essentially ambushed,” Hahn said in explaining how the events Wednesday unfolded.
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Officer O’Sullivan ^, who was standing behind her training officer was struck by multiple rifle rounds.
It took an armored truck and 45 minutes to get her to the hospital in the midst of the stand-off.
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Sacramento police officials released jarring bodycam footage during a news conference Friday night regarding the shooting death of 26-year-old officer Tara O’Sullivan on Wednesday. Rest in peace.
Chief Daniel Hahn and began wtth police showing body cam footage of an officer, with a gun drawn, knocking on the door of a garage before gunfire erupts from behind. The video went on to show the officer, identified as O’Sullivan’s training officer, Daniel Chipp, taking cover and broadcasting the gunman’s use of a high-powered rifle.
“The officers were essentially ambushed,” Hahn said in explaining how the events Wednesday unfolded.
Officer O’Sullivan ^, who was standing behind her training officer was struck by multiple rifle rounds.
It took an armored truck and 45 minutes to get her to the hospital in the midst of the stand-off.
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