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WATCH: Passenger video shows LaVoy Finicum’s last moments — and demolishes Bundy conspiracies
WATCH: Passenger video shows LaVoy Finicum’s last moments — and demolishes Bundy conspiracies
Travis Gettys
08 Mar 2016 at 14:02 ET
uthorities fired eight gunshots at Lavoy Finicum and his vehicle, investigators said — and they found all of them were justified.
The rancher was shot three times in the back as he reached for a loaded gun in his pocket, according to investigators from the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office. Six shots were fired by state police and two by FBI agents, and all three shots that struck Finicum were fired by state troopers.
Finicum and passengers in his SUV agreed to flee police during a Jan. 26 traffic stop on Highway 395, which prosecutors said is a class C felony, The Oregonian reported.
One of the passengers, Shawna Cox, recorded cell phone video that authorities showed during a Tuesday news conference announcing the results of their investigation.
“You back down or you kill me now,” Finicum shouted at Oregon State Police before fleeing the traffic stop. “This is going to get real! You want my blood on your hands?”
“You want a blood bath? It’s going to be on your hands. We’re going to see the sheriff,” Finicum said.
Authorities stopped another car filled with armed militants who had been occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Reserve, but they agreed to surrender peacefully.
WATCH: Passenger video shows LaVoy Finicum’s last moments — and demolishes Bundy conspiracies
Travis Gettys
08 Mar 2016 at 14:02 ET
uthorities fired eight gunshots at Lavoy Finicum and his vehicle, investigators said — and they found all of them were justified.
The rancher was shot three times in the back as he reached for a loaded gun in his pocket, according to investigators from the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office. Six shots were fired by state police and two by FBI agents, and all three shots that struck Finicum were fired by state troopers.
Finicum and passengers in his SUV agreed to flee police during a Jan. 26 traffic stop on Highway 395, which prosecutors said is a class C felony, The Oregonian reported.
One of the passengers, Shawna Cox, recorded cell phone video that authorities showed during a Tuesday news conference announcing the results of their investigation.
“You back down or you kill me now,” Finicum shouted at Oregon State Police before fleeing the traffic stop. “This is going to get real! You want my blood on your hands?”
“You want a blood bath? It’s going to be on your hands. We’re going to see the sheriff,” Finicum said.
Authorities stopped another car filled with armed militants who had been occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Reserve, but they agreed to surrender peacefully.
