Shocking moment officer shoots dead kidnapping suspect who tries to grab policewoman’s gun in violent struggle on a bus
Miguel Angel Chavez-Angles is shot several times after grappling with Officer Heather Lane in Oklahoma City, USA
SHOCKING footage has been released showing a suspected kidnapper being shot dead by police on a bus.
The video shows Miguel Angel Chavez-Angles boarding a bus in Oklahoma City, USA, on 24 June.
The CCTV footage from inside the vehicle – which also comes with sound – shows Chavez behaving erratically.
He tells the driver not to stop or open the doors, offering him money and even his bank cards.
At one point he can be heard saying he will give him “whatever [he] wants” as long as he keeps on driving.
After a while, Chavez suddenly jumps onto the luggage rack and takes the vehicle’s fire extinguisher out of its container.
At this point, the concerned driver – named by KFOR as John Mobley Jr – orders him to get off the bus.
When he refuses, he asks the other passengers to get off instead.
Just as the last of them appear to be leaving a policewoman arrives, drawing her weapon when the driver points to Chavez.
The edgy passenger picks up the fire extinguisher to throw it at the cop – Officer Heather Lane – before lunging at her and grabbing her gun.
The pair grapple for a few heart-stopping moments and the weapon goes off – with the entire thing caught on film from multiple angles by the bus’s several CCTV cameras.
Eventually they fall to the floor as her colleague, Officer Daniel Carli, arrives in the nick of time, shooting the suspect several times.
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Oklahoma City Police Chief Bill Citty said the gun had jammed but was pointed at Carli before he opened fire.
The cops involved had been looking for Chavez before the incident after an alleged kidnapping earlier that day.
He is said to have got into a car with two women and told them to drive, before getting out after more than a mile.
The suspect had also previously been taken to hospital for an evaluation just hours earlier.
Worried churchgoers had called police when he was seen banging his head on the floor while praying.
He was reportedly upset about possibly getting divorced from his wife.
Both officers involved in his killing are on restricted duty while a probe is carried out into Chavez’s death.
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