Police publish video of officer shooting mortally at Californian teenager "in shooting position"

CNN asked the police, why the police department had released the camera footage on the body in a video, rather than in a raw format.

"We are used to publishing" briefings "to explain the videos and the incident of the Biological Weapons Convention to provide context (not opinions as we explain, but context) ., such as the 17-year-old woman, "said Radus.

"Although his family and the media can identify him by his name and his image, we do not respect his family, nor the requirements we adhere to in the state of California with regard to minors," did he declare.

Dunn also stated that the camera images on the body contained images that could be disturbing.

"When a police officer uses force to arrest a suspect or to defend himself from an attack, it can be graphic and difficult to monitor," Dunn said. "In addition, the video can use strong language, and the discretion of the viewer is recommended, especially for young children and sensitive viewers."

The police have not identified the police officer, who is on paid administrative leave while an investigation is underway.

Hannah was taking antidepressants and may have wanted to hurt herself, her father told a 911 operator while seeming to resist tears. He had called to report his disappearance, knowing nothing of the shooting, the police said.

He also told the operator that he did not believe that she had weapons with her.

The teen SUV struck a police car, prosecutors say

Hannah was driving an SUV in Anaheim around 7 pm before she is killed.

The officer took his K9 police dog companion to a veterinarian when he saw the speed of his vehicle, police said.

At one point, Hannah's sport utility vehicle and the police officer's police car "took physical contact," the Orange County attorney's office said.

In the video, Radus, the public information agent, explains that the SUV has turned around and found itself in the wrong direction on the highway. The officer came out of his vehicle and approached when he saw the teenager standing outside his vehicle and apparently pointing a gun at him.

Radus says Williams confronted the officer in a "shooting position with both arms extended in front of her, pointing a gun directly to the officer".

The officer then shot him.

Hannah falls on the sidewalk and the officer orders him to roll on his stomach.

She starts screaming for help and says repeatedly that she can not breathe.

"Where did you hit, ma'am?" asks someone apparently the agent who shot him.

Hannah tells the officer that she was hit in the chest and shouted, "Help me, please."

The camera on the body shows an apparent witness approaching the scene to help the officer before the arrival of the doctors.

The man takes what the officer thought was a gun and can be heard in the video: "It's a replica".

The man sits down with Hannah and tries to calm her down by saying "You're fine" over and over again and "Stay with me, you're fine."

The officer applies a tourniquet to his leg, where blood and a tear in his pants are visible.

A replica of Beretta

In the video, the police show a picture of the replica that Hannah was holding. It's "almost impossible to distinguish" from a real handgun, Radus said.

"The weapon was later identified as a replica handgun designed to look like a real Beretta 92FS," said the County Orange County Attorney's Office.

The rescuers transported Hannah to a hospital where she died.

The father says that she might have wanted to hurt herself

The police also released the audio of what they say in the video is a 911 call dialed by Hannah's father about 90 minutes after the murder, but he did not know it before. He told the operator that Hannah had taken the family's rental car and had been missing for about three hours.

Lee Merritt, a lawyer for Hannah's family, told CNN that he had seen the video, but that the family had decided not to watch it.

"It was accurate but incomplete," said Merritt. "We do not have the 30 seconds of audio missing, so we do not know if the officer has given verbal orders.We do not see the accident, nor its cause."

When asked by CNN about the missing audio in the camera footage, Radus, the police spokesperson, explained that it was a 30-second buffer.

The family told Merritt that Hannah had no history of weapons or any known drug or alcohol problem. The teenager was an inexperienced driver, he said, and may have never been on the highway before.

Merritt asked for further investigation.

"I think when an officer is facing a person in a firing position, he is allowed to use lethal force," Merritt told CNN.

"However," Merritt added, "it was a violation of police procedure to put yourself in a situation where there was nothing left for him except his use of lethal force." It was a stopover of crime, reinforcement, given verbal orders … as opposed to putting oneself in danger.

Struggles with his mental health

Merritt said at a press conference that the family did not want to blame but wanted to know what had happened to their daughter.

The family did not know until Friday that Hannah was "in firing position" when the officer approached.

"If they had known that from the beginning, it would have given them a little more closure," he said.

"For more than a year, Hannah has struggled with mental health issues," said Merritt. "She was at a particularly high point in these struggles." From the family's point of view that day, she was functioning not only as usual, but at a high level. "