Body camera footage showed the officer firing once at the gunman after limping toward his police cruiser. Iurato, 26, was released Thursday from the hospital, authorities said.īrutcher died from a gunshot wound to the neck with spinal cord injuries, authorities said. Iurato killed the shooter with a single shot, according to the Office of the Inspector General. Hamzy died at the scene and DeMonte was pronounced dead at a hospital, according to a statement from Connecticut State Police. Iurato receives radio confirmation that his message was heard, according to the video. An unknown person’s screams echo into the night air shortly afterward, as heard in the two-minute footage.Īfter a brief pause from Iurato, his radio beeps as the officer says “Officers shot, officers shot” in a calmer tone while still breathing heavily. “Shots fired! Shots fired! More cars, send everyone,” Iurato is heard panting into his police radio. Iurato turned toward the street where his cruiser was parked.
Iurato’s body camera footage showed the wounded officer facing the front of a house before he appeared to crouch in the dark near a bush. The officers approached the house's side door to speak with Nathan Brutcher, Nicholas Brutcher's 32-year-old brother, according to the Office of the Inspector General. As they instructed him to show his hands and step outside, Nicholas Brutcher shot more than 80 rounds at the officers from behind, authorities said.ĬONNECTICUT POLICE: 2 Bristol officers killed may have been lured into deadly ambush Nicholas Brutcher, 35, is believed to have made the call to deliberately lure police to the scene, according to a preliminary investigation. The officers responded to a possible domestic violence incident between brothers Wednesday night, according to Connecticut State Police. The video came from body camera Officer Alec Iurato, who was shot in the leg. Dustin DeMonte dead from multiple gunshot wounds. The office also released body camera footage from the attack, which left Officer Alex Hamzy and Sgt. A wounded Connecticut police officer limped to a car after he and two of his colleagues were ambushed by a gunman before firing a single fatal shot at the assailant, Connecticut's Office of the Inspector General said in a statement.
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