Surveillance video shows moments before a man was killed in an officer-involved shooting

PHILADELPHIA – New surveillance video obtained by FOX 29 shows the moments before Philadelphia police shot and killed a man who was allegedly armed with a gun.

A video shows three Philadelphia Police SUVs pulling up behind the black pickup truck at 52nd and Woodland Streets on Sunday evening. The officers get out and you can hear screaming and then the sound of several gunshots.

According to police, the confrontation with the 47-year-old man before the fatal shooting began about a mile and a half away, just before 6:15 p.m. Sunday evening. A woman reported what police are describing as a domestic disturbance near 54th and Chancellor streets. Police said they called 911 after the man fired a shot inside the home.

According to police, the 47-year-old then attacked a man in his black pickup truck. That man, Tony, tells FOX 29 he was on the block to pick up his friend when his passenger door opened. He says the man didn’t make any sense and didn’t take his money when he offered it.

“I had my hands in the air and I was just like, ‘What are you doing? Calm down, calm down,’ you know, and he just wouldn’t calm down,” Tony says. “When the police came, he still had the gun pointed at everyone.”

Both the police and Tony say the man tried to shoot but failed. According to police, an 18th District officer fired one shot and it is unclear whether the man was hit.

Police said they then pursued the vehicle to 52nd and Woodland Streets, where the man got out of the truck and tried to run to that empty parking lot when an 18th Precinct officer and a sergeant fired shots.

In another video obtained by FOX 29, bystanders can be seen running, then the man turning the corner and appearing to run with his back to the officers.

According to police, the man was taken to the hospital where he died. A firearm was recovered at the scene. Police say it is unclear whether the man was shot in the first confrontation, the second or both.

A neighbor, who asked that we use only his first name, says he is questioning the shooter.

“He didn’t have a weapon visible,” he said. “Wherever they found it on his body, the waistband of his pants, so what? The man retreated, he ran away.”

Back in the neighborhood, Shirlene Lewis, a member of the local Chosen Generation Church, said she was concerned about gunfire nearby.

“It could have been a child, it could have been an elderly person walking by and he could have been shot,” she said. “I just pray that people stick together, stop the violence, stop the killing, stop the shootings.”