ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – The Orange County Sheriff’s Office released bodycam video on Tuesday depicting a deputy involved in a fatal shooting of a man they claimed was attempting to access a rifle during a raid earlier this month.
On May 16, SWAT members raided what deputies described as a drug house located at 5614 Lejune Drive around 2:20 p.m.
Deputies reported that as the SWAT team entered and worked to secure the area, they encountered a man in a bedroom who reached behind a door to where a rifle was located.
A deputy subsequently shot the man, who was hit and later transported to the hospital. Identified by officials as Tyrone Bartley, 32, he died shortly afterward, according to sheriff’s authorities.
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The bodycam video shows deputies approaching the house saying, “police with a search warrant. Open the door now” before they knock in the door.
After deputies clear the living and kitchen areas, they can be seen kicking in one bedroom door before Bartley is seen opening his own door.
Shortly after, deputies can be heard saying “hands up” multiple times before unleashing a series of gunshots.
In the video, deputies said the “view from deputy #2’s body-worn camera shows Bartley reaching behind the bedroom door where a rifle was located.”
Bartley’s family and friends held a press conference on Saturday, disputing the sheriff’s office account of events.
“He did nothing wrong,” Shereem Bartley, Tyrone Bartley’s sister said at the press conference. “He was not who you guys came for that particular day, nor have you guys ever come for him on any day.”
Shereem Bartley said the home where the search warrant was served by the SWAT team is set up where the bedrooms are individual bedrooms with different numbers on each door.
Brittani Jackson, Tyrone Bartley’s girlfriend, accused the sheriff’s office of botching the raid and search warrant for “two roommates that weren’t even home.”
“They say the gun was later found behind the door. There was no gun behind the door,” Jackson said through tears at the same press conference.
The sheriff’s office said on Saturday that during the incident on May 16, deputies recovered three handguns and one rifle and nearly 370 grams of fentanyl laced cocaine. They also said that two handguns were recovered there earlier this month during a domestic violence call, but did not say which unit inside of the house was involved in those recoveries.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the shooting.
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