LPD releases video from April 10 police shooting; man can be seen reaching for officer's gun

LANSING — The Lansing Police Department has released video from a police shooting earlier this month that left two officers and a suspect wounded.

The portions of body camera video released show the man reaching for at least one officer's firearm, and he can be heard telling officers that they would have to kill him as they tried to put handcuffs on him.

Also included in the video, which the department posted to the city's YouTube page, are still images police say shows the man reaching for and holding the officer's or detective's weapons.

The video identifies the man as 28-year-old Andrial Ched Ortiz of Lansing.

The patrol officers involved are Caitlin Markey and Saleba Moshi, who are both one-year veterans of the department. The detectives involved have been identified as Gregory Parrott and Kristi Pratl, who have 22 and 23 years with the department, respectively.

Michigan State Police are investigating, which is standard policy for shootings involving Lansing officers. The officers and detectives will remain on paid administrative leave during the investigation.

MSP declined to comment.

The incident began around 11:15 a.m. on April 10, after detectives requested uniform patrol officers stop a vehicle so they could investigate a violent crime that happened earlier that week, according to slides included in the video's release. Police have not said what violent crime was being investigated.

Ortiz pulled the vehicle into a parking lot behind an apartment complex in the 2000 block of Holmes Road, where police spoke with him for several minutes, according to Police Chief Ellery Sosebee, who narrated parts of the video.

The day of the shooting, Sosebee said Ortiz is known to LPD, but there was no indication that Ortiz had ties to any homes or apartments in the area.

When police tried to arrest Ortiz, he ran away and police chased after, eventually tackling him to the ground, according to the slides. While on the ground and as police tried to put handcuffs on him, the man can be heard telling police that they would have to kill him.

Ortiz appears to reach for at least one law enforcement officer's gun before an officer said she was going to use her stun gun on Ortiz. The officer hit him with the stun gun, but Ortiz continued to fight with detectives and an officer before one can be heard saying the suspect had a gun, followed by the sound of a gunshot.

A slide in the video says one patrol officer was shot and another grazed, before a patrol officer fired their weapon. Sosebee said last week that all three people who were shot suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

Contact reporter Matt Mencarini at 517-377-1026 or mjmencarini@lsj.com.

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