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El Cajon, CA — Body camera footage was released this week showing a graphic shooting that left a suspected trailer thief in critical care and a National City Police detective with a bullet hole in his body. The only folks who fired guns were police officers, Deputies David Lovejoy and Jonathon Young.

According to authorities, on Feb. 16, around 10:15 p.m., deputies with the El Cajon sheriff’s department conducted what they referred to as a “high risk vehicle stop,” for a stolen trailer. The driver of the van pulling the stolen trailer was 31-year-old Erik Talavera.

When police initiated the stop, there was no chase and Talavera pulled over in a cul-de-sac in El Cajon. According to police, Talavera exited the vehicle holding a knife and refused to drop it.

When the body camera footage begins, Lovejoy already had Talavera at gunpoint and is safely situated behind the door of his police cruiser. Moments later, Young arrives and assumes a similar position in which he points his gun at Talavera as well.

Talavera is over 30 feet away from the officers when they begin yelling at him to lie on the ground. As Talavera appears to be getting down on the ground, Young and Lovejoy open fire on him, dumping multiple rounds into his body.

As Talavera writhes in agony on the ground, the deputies continue to yell commands. When Talavera moves his hand forward, in the direction of the knife, one of the deputies fires two more rounds in complete disregard for the safety of anyone in the area, which were likely one of the rounds that hit their fellow cop.

After those two shots, Lovejoy can be heard saying, “I can’t see what it is. He’s got a small black object in his hand.”

Young’s camera records another deputy asking him if the item Talavera grabbed is a gun. Young responds initially that he “saw a black object,” but a short time later, Talavera tosses the knife away as not to get shot again, and Young shouts that it’s a knife........read and watch more......