AUSTIN, Texas — Austin police say an unarmed nude teenager was the person fatally shot by an officer in an altercation partly captured by patrol car video.
Police on Tuesday identified the person who died as 17-year-old David Joseph.
Police Chief of Staff Brian Manley says Officer Geoffrey Freeman fatally shot Joseph when the teen refused orders to stop and then charged at the officer. Police didn’t immediately release the patrol car video, which captured some of incident late Monday morning on a street.
Manley says Freeman initially responded to a report of one male chasing another through an Austin apartment complex, resumed his patrol then came upon the naked Joseph.
Freeman, who’s been an Austin police officer for 10 years, was put on administrative duty following the shooting.
An autopsy was ordered.