Crime & Safety

Video Released In Bodega Bay Deputy-Involved Shooting

WARNING: This video from the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office contains multiple graphic and disturbing images as well as strong language.

BODEGA BAY, CA — The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office released a video Tuesday of the events that led up to a deputy-involved shooting July 4 in Bodega Bay. The video includes audio from the 911 call as well as body-worn camera footage in the shooting of Betai Koffi, 32, of San Francisco.

The sheriff's office has said Koffi was reportedly using LSD and assaulted several people, including friends whom he rented a home with in Bodega Harbor for the Fourth of July holiday.

Koffi was hospitalized in critical condition immediately following the shooting. While under medical care at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, Koffi was arraigned July 11 on suspicion of multiple felonies, according to the sheriff's office.

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Koffi has since been released from sheriff's custody but remains hospitalized, according to sheriff's Spokeswoman Misti Wood.

He was released from custody July 25 on his own recognizance, Wood told Patch Tuesday.

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