The mother of a man shot and killed by a Reno police officer during a domestic violence call earlier this month says her son struggled after serving five tours of duty in Afghanistan.
Police on Thursday released partial bodycam footage of the killing of 34-year-old C. B.by an officer responding to a domestic violence report.
After reports that a woman was screaming about another woman being strangled police showed up at a home on Colorado River Boulevard near Plumb Lane and South Virginia Street.
Video shows B. standing inside a home with his right hand behind his back. He curses at the officer to get out. The officer asks if B. is not the problem behind why the police were called.
B. then suddenly lunges and there’s a struggle in the doorway. The officer breaks free and fires off 4 rounds.
B. lands on his stomach. Other officers arrive, put on gloves and handcuff him. B. would die a short time later at Renown Regional Medical Center.
The Sparks Police Department is investigating the incident per regional police shootings protocol.
His father died when B. was 12. B. wanted to do something positive to make his father proud so he signed up for the military at age 17.
“I had to sign for him to go in the Army,” his mother said.
B. eventually became an Army Ranger who did five tours in Afghanistan and received numerous commendations before being honorably discharged, according to the discharge form his mother received. He was a dog handler working in bomb detection, she said.
They talked the night before he was killed. He told her was coming over the next day to set up her Christmas tree.
“I'm a disabled senior so I walk with a cane and I have a hard time doing a lot of stuff for myself,” she said. “he always comes down and helps me.”
B. had nightmares and was struggling with what he’d experienced in combat, his mother said.
“He saw a lot of stuff in Afghanistan with the Special Forces,” she said. “We never discussed it. Sometimes that’s just too painful for someone to relive. A lot of these vets suffer in silence.”
Detectives gave her the option to see the 12-minute Reno police video before it was posted publicly. They watched on a laptop in her Sparks home.
“We sat in my living room,” she said. “It was very hard on me to watch.”
She didn’t have any comments about the video.
“I haven’t been able to sleep for days and days and days,” she said. “He was my baby.”
Police on Thursday released partial bodycam footage of the killing of 34-year-old C. B.by an officer responding to a domestic violence report.
After reports that a woman was screaming about another woman being strangled police showed up at a home on Colorado River Boulevard near Plumb Lane and South Virginia Street.
Video shows B. standing inside a home with his right hand behind his back. He curses at the officer to get out. The officer asks if B. is not the problem behind why the police were called.
B. then suddenly lunges and there’s a struggle in the doorway. The officer breaks free and fires off 4 rounds.
B. lands on his stomach. Other officers arrive, put on gloves and handcuff him. B. would die a short time later at Renown Regional Medical Center.
The Sparks Police Department is investigating the incident per regional police shootings protocol.
His father died when B. was 12. B. wanted to do something positive to make his father proud so he signed up for the military at age 17.
“I had to sign for him to go in the Army,” his mother said.
B. eventually became an Army Ranger who did five tours in Afghanistan and received numerous commendations before being honorably discharged, according to the discharge form his mother received. He was a dog handler working in bomb detection, she said.
They talked the night before he was killed. He told her was coming over the next day to set up her Christmas tree.
“I'm a disabled senior so I walk with a cane and I have a hard time doing a lot of stuff for myself,” she said. “he always comes down and helps me.”
B. had nightmares and was struggling with what he’d experienced in combat, his mother said.
“He saw a lot of stuff in Afghanistan with the Special Forces,” she said. “We never discussed it. Sometimes that’s just too painful for someone to relive. A lot of these vets suffer in silence.”
Detectives gave her the option to see the 12-minute Reno police video before it was posted publicly. They watched on a laptop in her Sparks home.
“We sat in my living room,” she said. “It was very hard on me to watch.”
She didn’t have any comments about the video.
“I haven’t been able to sleep for days and days and days,” she said. “He was my baby.”
