WATCH: Pleasanton PD Release Bodycam Footage Of Shooting

PLEASANTON, CA — The Pleasanton Police Department has released body camera footage and portions of the 911 call that resulted in an officer-involved shooting on Feb. 17. The domestic violence suspect killed by police has also been identified as Cody Chavez, a 33-year-old resident of San Jose. Chavez was shot following a nearly three-hour standoff, after he lunged toward officers with a foot-long kitchen knife.

An edited, eight-and-a-half-minute YouTube video released by the PPD shows this footage from several body cameras and a drone. The video contains disturbing images and descriptions of violence.

The incident began at 11:51 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 17 after a 911 call in which Chavez’s girlfriend told dispatchers that earlier that morning, her boyfriend covered her face with a pillow, pulled her hair, and wouldn’t let her leave the room.

The victim, whose voice is moderated to protect her identity, also tells dispatchers that she had called police before, and had a restraining order against Chavez. “But smooth operator, he got me back in, but last night was it for me,” she says.

The victim told dispatchers that she had seen Chavez about an hour prior walking around on the property. She also told dispatchers that Chavez said that he would jump out the window of their first-floor apartment on the side, so she asked police to come to the front door.

The victim was reportedly in a safe place when she made the call, and was attended to by domestic violence advocates. Anyone experiencing or aware of domestic violence abuse is encouraged to call either the PPD at 925-931-5100, or contact Tri-Valley Haven’s 24-Hour Crisis Hotline at 1-800-884-8119.

Officers went to the apartment at 4899 Willow Road in Pleasanton and unsuccessfully attempted to contact Chavez, according to one of several written descriptions in the video. Officers said that they could see Chavez peering out of the first-floor window.

Body camera footage shows officers telling Chavez via megaphone to come outside and open the door with nothing in his hands. “Hands up and you will not be harmed,” an officer is heard saying. Chavez reportedly communicated “intermittently” with a growing crisis management team for the first 40 minutes, but stopped after a while.

During the nearly three-hour standoff, the streets surrounding Willow Road and Owens Drive near the large Galloway apartment complex were closed off, and neighboring units were evacuated. Patrol officers, plainclothes detectives, crisis negotiators, and crews from the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department and Falck Paramedics were all on-scene.

After several hours of minimal communication, officers sent a robot into the apartment, which can be seen in body camera footage in the video. Authorities reportedly made a plan to break open the window so that a drone could get inside to observe.

Chavez also reportedly opened and slammed the front door “multiple times,” during which officers could see that he was holding a knife.

Five minutes, nine seconds into the video, Chavez can be seen exiting the building holding a knife, as officers broke his window open. Bodycam and drone footage shows him running toward police.

Police can be heard shouting, “Door open! Get back!” He was shot almost instantly after he began running. The video zooms into shows two officers firing what it describes as a “less-lethal” device (usually a taser), and two officers atop an armored vehicle firing a service weapon.

After that, footage shows Chavez’s blurred out body lying on the ground as medical personnel attend to him. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

The two Pleasanton officers involved in the incident were revealed in a PPD news release to be 4-year veteran Brian Jewell and 7-year veteran Mario Guillermo.

The incident is still under investigation by the Pleasanton Police Department and the Alameda
County District Attorney’s Office.