WATCH: Video shows Arlington police shoot gunman accused of opening fire at car dealership

The Arlington Police Department on Monday released portions of the dashboard-camera and body-camera video from the Sept. 28 shooting during which officers wounded a former car dealership employee accused of opening fire at the business.

In the video, officers can be seen arriving, taking cover and shooting the 25-year-old suspect, Abbas Al-Mutairy. In audio included with the video, they can be heard stressing the importance of keeping Al-Mutairy contained in a perimeter set up by officers as they arrived and saying that they might need to shoot him.

Al-Mutairy, who was armed with a rifle, pulled into the parking lot of Vandergriff Honda, in the 1100 block of W. Interstate 20, at 6:24 p.m., according to a timeline released by police. Two minutes after police arrived at the scene at 6:36, Al-Mutairy had been fired at and shot by officers.

Detectives learned that Al-Mutairy had recently been fired from the dealership.

Minutes after he arrived, he got out of his vehicle and fired multiple shots at the lobby of the dealership, which was full of employees and customers, police said. As the employees and customers tried to escape from the building, Al-Mutairy briefly entered the dealership and a service bay before returning to the parking lot near his vehicle, police said.

Police were dispatched at 6:31 p.m. The first officers arrived on scene about 6:36 p.m. They immediately found Al-Mutairy in the parking lot holding the rifle “in a low ready position,” police said at a news conference Monday. The officers “took strategic cover” and three of them fired their service weapons, shooting Al-Mutairy in the chest. The gunman was down and the scene was secure by 6:38 p.m., police said.

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Based on their investigation, detectives believe Al-Mutairy pointed the rifle in the direction of the responding officers.

In audio included with the videos, officers can be heard talking about keeping Al-Mutairy contained in a perimeter. A civilian standing at the edge of the car lot when police arrived points him out to one officer, who tells the man to get to cover. Another officer can be heard saying the man was armed with a rifle and others called out his location. In some of the videos, fire alarms from the car dealership can be heard sounding in the background.

“We can not let him break,” one officer at the scene can be heard saying over police radio. “If somebody needs to take the shot, take the shot now.”

The officers take cover behind cars and start scanning the area for the 25-year-old gunman. One officer with a handgun crouches behind the front end of an SUV to use the engine block for cover. Another, armed with a rifle, takes up position behind that same SUV, propping the gun on the roof of the vehicle.

The third office whose bodycam footage was released had a different angle. He stepped out of his patrol vehicle with a rifle and took cover behind a police SUV.

“Where is he? Where is he?” the third officer asks others near him.

“Right behind the truck,” came one reply.

“This white truck?” the third officer asks, positioning himself at the rear corner of the patrol vehicle.

The third officer moves out into the open, then back behind the police vehicle.

The second officer, behind the white SUV, shouts, “Get down,” and drops behind the vehicle for cover. The first officer, with the handgun, also drops lower.

A few seconds later, another officer calls out over radio that Al-Mutairy was pointing the gun at them.

“Take the shot if you can justify it,” another officer is heard saying over radio after the gunfire had already started.

The officer behind the white SUV returns to his original position, aiming over the vehicle, before opening fire on Al-Mutairy. The one with the handgun peers over the hood of the vehicle and begins shooting.

The third officer stepped back out of cover as soon as someone announced that Al-Mutairy was aiming at police and fired two shots, paused for a half second, then took a third before moving back behind the vehicle.

That officer waits for a moment, then moves back into the open and fires two more shots before shouting, “Where is he?”

“He’s down, he’s down, move forward,” the second officer can be heard shouting a short distance away.

“Shots fired, shots fired,” one officer shouts over radio.

“He’s on the ground, he’s on the ground,” another calls out as police rush toward Al-Mutairy, their firearms still drawn and aimed in his direction. “Stay behind him.”

Al-Mutairy was taken to a hospital, where he continues to receive medical treatment and remains listed in critical condition. He has been charged with three counts of aggravated assault on a public servant, one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and one count of deadly conduct.

Because he is in critical condition, investigators have not had the opportunity to interview Al-Mutairy, a step in the investigation Police Chief Al Jones said has kept them from identifying a motive or whether the gunman was targeting anyone specific.

No officers, employees or customers at the dealership were injured.

“I truly believe this incident could have ended much differently and more tragically than it did,” Jones said. “I’m extremely relieved it did not. I’m also incredibly grateful that no officers or innocent bystanders were injured.”

He said he was proud of the officers and the way they responded, but also noted that he is withholding judgment on whether the shooting was justified until an internal investigation is completed.

Police said that before they arrived, Al-Mutairy had entered the building, walking around with the rifle. Still images shared along with the video released by Arlington police showed him walking inside, as well as walking around in the parking lot.

A police spokesman told the Star-Telegram that investigators believe “well over a dozen” people were inside the dealership at the time. They’re still working to identify and interview everybody who was there during the shooting.

Police aren’t sure if the attack on the dealership was intentionally targeted at one person or if the gunman was there to shoot indiscriminately. While detectives have not been able to speak to the suspect about his motive for the shooting, Jones said they are looking at multiple possibilities. Al-Mutairy had recently been fired from the dealership, and Jones confirmed that a relative was working at the dealership at the time of the shooting.

“This is a complex, dynamic situation we’re dealing with,” Jones said at the news conference. “Based on everything I’ve seen, this could have ended up a lot worse.”

Criminal and administrative investigations into the shooting are ongoing. A police spokesperson said they do not know long either investigation will take, but said detectives are still working to interview officers who were at the scene and other witnesses as part of the internal investigation into the officers’ decision to fire their weapons.

Per department policy, the three officers who shot at Al-Mutairy were required to take a seven-day administrative leave following the shooting and internal affairs detectives were unable to interview them for their investigation until that leave was over.

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