Footage from deputy’s body-worn camera shows fatal shooting of Alpine resident

Footage moments after the Nov fatal shooting in Alpine in which the deputy is holding the gun after firing at the resident Image from sdsheriff via YouTube Executives on Friday published video footage of the fatal shooting by a sheriff s deputy of an Alpine man nearly three weeks ago Robert Edmund Liddell allegedly approached him and his partner with a replica pistol in hand as the deputies checked in on him at the request of a neighbor Deputy Jordi Herrera opened fire on Liddell in a hallway at the man s home in the block of Kyrsten Terrace on Nov according to the San Diego County Sheriff s Office Deputies arrived about an hour after a p m call in which the neighbor disclosed that she was concerned about a man she had been unable to contact Speaking to a dispatcher she declared she was outside Liddell s home where she identified the front door open but got no response from anyone inside When I knocked then I noticed the door started you know it didn t open totally but it pushed forward and if I had knocked again it would have opened the door the caller mentioned in a recording that was part of footage posted on YouTube by the Sheriff s office The woman added that she called out but received no answer Herrera and Deputy Christopher Kleppe can be seen upon arrival inspecting the scene outside briefly before deciding to enter through the unlocked front door Repeatedly identifying themselves as sheriff s deputies they walked through the dark home with their flashlights on and their body-worn cameras activated About seconds after they entered Liddell emerged from a room with the imitation pistol in his hand and declared Get the expletive out As Kleppe took refuge in a room and the resident moved past that doorway the deputies shouted at him to drop it Moments later Herrera fired four rounds at Liddell and he collapsed against a wall They ordered him again to drop the gun and he yelled I dropped it Herrera and Kleppe provided emergency aid prior to the arrival of paramedics who took Liddell to a hospital where doctors pronounced him dead Herrera has been with the Sheriff s Office for three years and Kleppe for six Per the agency s policies they were placed on desk duty while the shooting is investigated by California Attorney General Rob Bonta s office under terms of a state law Assembly Bill requires the state Department of Justice to investigate law enforcement shootings resulting in the deaths of unarmed people Under the statute armed means being in possession of a deadly weapon according to the DOJ Replica firearms do not fall into that category unless they are used in a manner likely to produce death or great bodily injury for example to bludgeon