Dejon Heard, 25, was fatally shot just after 7 a.m. Saturday by Officer Tarik Andrew, a three-year department veteran
San Diego police on Thursday released video footage of an officer fatally shooting a knife-wielding man during a confrontation in Bird Rock over the weekend.
The footage police released comes from cameras worn by the two San Diego police officers who arrived at the scene together in a patrol vehicle. Heard, still holding the knife, slows then stops as he repeatedly screams, “You’ve got to be kidding with me right now.” By this point, he is at the front of the police car, on the passenger’s side, the same side of the car as Andrew.Heard screams and drops, the knife now on the ground beside him. As the two officers approach and yell commands at him, Heard flicks the knife under the police car, where he can no longer reach it. “There you go,” one of the officers says.
An area resident posted on social media that she saw a man sitting in a car blocking the road about 6:30 a.m., less than a half-hour before the 911 calls shared by police. She said the man got out and began “pulling things out of his trunk and changing his pants, ranting and raving.” In 2019, Heard was arrested on allegations of stabbing another man and spent seven months in jail. Klat said the incident “put him over the edge” and exacerbated his mental health struggles.
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