Family of man fatally shot by Maple Heights police releases bodycam video of incident

The family of Datwuan Catchings has released extended body cam footage of the 22-year-old's fatal shooting at the hands of a Maple Heights police officer in Cleveland this past May. In the video released at a press conference with an attorney representing the family on Thursday, officers can be seen rapidly pursuing a vehicle in the early hours of May 30. After the vehicle being sought purportedly hit a deer, officers can be seen chasing Catchings, who they said was carrying a gun. After Catchings ignores the officers' demands to stop, he can be seen climbing the fence of a house at East 93rd Street and Buckeye Road. At that point, a police officer fires a single shot at Catchings, which appears to strike him in the back of his shoulder before he finishes climbing over the fence. Officers proceeded to run around to the front yard of the house, where their bodycam footage captures Catchings stumbling before falling down. Officers then approach Catchings, who can be seen with a significant amount of blood while lying on the ground. He was later pronounced dead and a handgun was recovered in the area. Brandon Simmons reports: https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/loc...