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Warren police release video of officer as he shoots Warren man
Huffman Dash Cam
Video
This video was released by the Warren Police Department Monday of the dash cam video from the patrol car of Patrolman Adam Huffman when he responded to May 27 to a house at 1104 Harrison Street Northeast at 11:32 p.m. and learned that a man was inside the house with a gun pointed at his girlfriend. After a couple minutes of talking to ambulance personnel and a woman in the back of the ambulance, Huffman started to talk to a dispatcher over his portable radio when Randall Bryant, 45, came to the door. Huffman can be heard telling Huffman to "Let me see your hands" two times and "drop the gun, drop the gun," before shots could be heard. Bryant was hit by the gunfire and underwent surgery for his wounds. The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is handling the investigation.
By Ed Runyan
WARREN
Warren police on Monday released the dash-cam video from the patrol car of Officer Adam Huffman that showed the officer arriving at 1104 Harrison St. NE late May 27 to learn that a man was holding a woman at gunpoint inside.
The video then shows Huffman firing his weapon as the man came through the door of the home.
The man, Randall Bryant, 45, who lived there, suffered at least one gunshot wound, including one that hit his lung. He was taken to St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital.
He was in critical condition just after the shooting, but Warren police, the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation and the hospital have not provided an update on his condition. BCI is in charge of the investigation.
The segment of the video provided by police is about 31/2 minutes long and shows the officer arriving during a hard rain and stopping his cruiser in the street in front of the home near an ambulance.
Huffman can be heard talking to ambulance personnel when he learned Bryant was holding his girlfriend at gunpoint in the house.
Huffman also spoke briefly with the girlfriend’s mother, who was in the back of the ambulance.
Then Huffman can be heard speaking into his portable radio to a dispatcher moments before Bryant apparently started coming through the front door.
Huffman can be heard saying, “Let me see your hands.” He then yells, “Drop the gun! Drop the gun!” as the sound of gunfire is heard.
The dispatcher apparently doesn’t understand what’s happening and asks, “What?” Huffman tells him “shots fired,” followed a few seconds later by, “Got a man with a shotgun in the house, came out the door at me.”
The video doesn’t show Huffman or Bryant, just the ambulance and a house. This segment is available on www.vindy.com.
According to police, the woman’s mother called 911 at 11:32 p.m. and said Bryant had assaulted her daughter and then left.
By the time Huffman arrived, Bryant had returned. Huffman was waiting for backup when Bryant emerged with the shotgun, police said.
Greg Hicks, Warren law director, said he was pushing for release of the cash-cam video since shortly after the incident occurred, but there was a technical reason why it wasn’t released sooner – the system that produces the videos doesn’t make partial copies, only full versions of entire incidents.
But the law only requires police to release dash-cam videos that show the incident as it unfolds, not the comments of police officers and their supervisors after the incident ends, Hicks said.
Warren police recently figured out how to copy a portion of the full video so they could provide the public with the necessary parts, Hicks said.