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Video released by the Dallas Police Department on Wednesday showed a crowded scene that quickly devolved into chaos and the fatal shooting of an armed man near Fair Park on Sunday evening.
Donathy Doddy, 61, was killed by Dallas police officers. A bystander was wounded in the leg, though Dallas police Chief Eddie García said it was still unclear whether that person was struck by gunfire from police or Doddy, who is believed to have fired at least one round — possibly two — before being gunned down.
The shooting happened about 6:10 p.m. Sunday in a parking lot in the 3400 block of Metropolitan Avenue, just south of Fair Park. García said dispatchers received 911 calls from witnesses who said Doddy was pointing a gun at people, and officers Zachary Wohlwend and Thomas Hartmann arrived within minutes.
Video from the officers’ body-worn cameras shows what appeared to be a party in the parking lot, with music playing and several people hanging out around a tent.
Wohlwend and Hartmann quickly recognized Doddy because one of the officers had previous interactions with him, García said. The video, which is heavily blurred, shows Doddy standing near a tent with several people.
“There’s too many people around, I can’t put him at gunpoint,” one officer says into his radio. The same officer calls Doddy’s name while asking the bystanders to move away. Doddy turns toward the officer, who is taking cover behind a van, and the officer tells him to take his hand off a gun.
Several rounds of gunfire are heard, and Doddy collapses in front of a car — his yellow sweatshirt quickly soaked in blood. The video shows a handgun lying feet away from Doddy, but the footage does not clearly show him firing at officers.
One officer renders aid to Doddy while the other asks bystanders whether anyone else was hit.
After one man holding a cane says he was wounded in the leg, the officer hands a tourniquet to a bystander and tells him to apply it to the man’s leg. That man was later treated and released from a hospital.
Meanwhile, a crowd gathers around Doddy and the other officer, pleading for the officers to perform CPR. A bystander offers to help, and the officer gives her a pair of gloves.
García said another bystander picked up Doddy’s gun and put it in their car for safe-keeping, an action which García said was done “in good faith.”
Doddy died at a hospital at 6:31 p.m.
While the situation deteriorated quickly, the officers’ body-worn camera shows several bystanders were standing around Doddy, downrange from both officers and in their lines of fire. At a news conference Wednesday, García defended the officers’ decision to start shooting. “I’m not quite certain that there were many other ways that these officers could have approached this situation,” he said.
A total of 15 shots were fired by police — 11 from one officer and four from the other, García said. But he declined to say how many of those 15 shots hit Doddy. Asked why not, García simply responded, “Because I’m not going to say that right now.”
Dallas police spokeswoman Kristin Lowman later clarified in an email that García “didn’t give a specific number because the number is part of the ongoing investigation.”
“If it is determined that the other victim was hit by one of our officer’s gunfire — we would release that information,” Lowman said. “That, too, is part of the ongoing investigation.”
García said Doddy had a history of “acting aggressively in the area.” He had been arrested on two different charges involving guns within a week in August and was out on bail, García said.
“As I’ve said before, any loss of life is tragic,” García said. “It is a tragedy for the family and friends of Donathy Doddy, but it’s also a tragedy for our officers who were involved that night. This is never our intended outcome.”
Wohlwend has been working with the Dallas Police Department for seven years, while Hartmann has been a member of the force for about nine months. Neither officer was injured in the shooting.
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