Innocent bystander shot by police is one of dozens of cases nationwide
CBS News reviewed police records, body camera footage, court documents and local news reports to find more than 50 cases of innocent bystanders shot by police.
When police responded to a Chandler, Arizona, neighborhood for a call about a man armed with a gun making threats, Mark Trujillo said he went outside to warn officers his wife and young children were inside their home next door. What happened next would change his life forever.
Body camera and Ring camera footage obtained by CBS News show a second-by-second account. Officers on one end of the street yelled for the neighbor to drop his gun and then opened fire on him. Officers on the other end never got the message the suspect was down.
"I remember making a gesture with my hand, but saying, 'you're gonna hit my house,' and that's it," Trujillo told CBS News.
Five seconds later, Trujillo was also hit — shot by an officer who, according to Chandler Police, mistook Trujillo for the suspect.
"We have an innocent," one officer can be heard saying on the bodycam footage.
Trujillo's spine was severed. The father of five will never walk again.