Terrifying moment cops shoot and kill father who called 911 for help during a home invasion

A Nevada begetter who called 911 for assistance during a location penetration was aboriginal changeable and killed by the cops who responded to his house.

Brandon Durham, 43, called the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department astatine astir 12.40am connected Tuesday to study that 2 radical were shooting extracurricular of his location and were trying to break-into his home, constabulary person said.

He told the relation helium was going to fastener himself successful the bathroom, and noted that helium was wrong the location with his 15-year-old daughter.

When cops past arrived connected the country successful Henderson, officers could beryllium seen kicking unfastened Durham's beforehand doorway and walking wrong successful assemblage camera footage released connected Thursday.

One constabulary officer, who has been identified arsenic Alexander Bookman, 26, could past beryllium seen rushing successful with his firearm drawn arsenic helium makes his mode down a constrictive hallway, from wherever screaming and banging sounds are emanating.

He yet comes successful interaction with a antheral successful his underwear who is holding different idiosyncratic successful a reddish hooded sweatshirt and achromatic overgarment up against a doorframe, arsenic the 2 struggled with a knife.

'Hey, driblet the knife,' Bookman could beryllium heard yelling. 'Drop the knife.'

Just astir 2 seconds later, helium fired his limb - shooting Durham successful his head, according to the Las Vegas Sun. 

Both Durham and the idiosyncratic successful the reddish sweatshirt, who has since been identified arsenic the location invader - Alejandra Boudreaux, 31 - instantly fell to the ground.

Still, the assemblage camera footage shows, Bookman precocious guardant and fired his weapon 5 much times - adjacent arsenic Durham stopped moving.

Police person since said determination were lone astir 3 seconds from the clip Bookman fired his archetypal changeable to his last, NBC News reports.

But officers soon learned that Durham was the homeowner, and helium was calling to study that Boudreaux had breached into his house.

At that point, cops tried to supply Durham with aesculapian treatment, but helium was pronounced dormant astatine the scene.

Meanwhile, officers took Boudreaux into custody and charged her with location penetration with a deadly weapon; battle with a deadly weapon; home violence; willful oregon wanton disregard of information of persons resulting successful death; and kid abuse, neglect oregon endangerment.

A transgression complaint obtained by KSNV suggests Boudreaux broke into Durham's location with a limb with the volition of provoking constabulary to termination her successful what is sometimes referred to arsenic 'suicide by cop.'

She was seemingly caught connected surveillance footage extracurricular the location for astir 10 minutes earlier the alleged location invasion.

That footage besides captured the dependable of solid breaking respective times, and the transgression ailment accused Boudreaux of attempting to stab and/or endanger Durham with a knife.

Durham's household has besides said they bash not judge helium was the 1 holding the knife, and was alternatively trying to fend disconnected Boudreaux erstwhile helium was shot.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is present conducting an interior probe into the shooting, and the Clark County District Attorney's Office volition yet find whether transgression charges volition beryllium filed against Officer Bookman.

For now, Bookman, who has been with the section since 2021, is connected paid administrative leave.

'The nonaccomplishment of beingness successful immoderate benignant of incidental similar this is ever tragic, and it's thing we instrumentality precise seriously,' Assistant Sheriff Dori Koren said astatine a quality league Tuesday.

'Our officers, unfortunately, person a precise challenging occupation that during these types of incidents, they don't person the quality to halt clip and halt a video and get a inactive and past walk minutes, fto unsocial hours oregon days oregon months, analyzing that accusation to marque their decision.'

But Durham's friends and household reason that Bookman did not adjacent springiness him a accidental to explicate what was happening earlier helium fired his weapon.

'The serviceman was not threatened. He conscionable didn't instrumentality the clip to de-escalate the situation, which helium should have, and my person would beryllium here,' Branden Cinquegrani told KTNV. 

'His 15-year-old girl conscionable mislaid her father, beauteous overmuch successful beforehand of her. And you cognize it's hard, it's precise disheartening.'

Durham's daughter, Isabella, besides said astatine a quality league that her begetter 'was the implicit victim, nary substance what could person happened.

'The unit that occurred present was nether idiosyncratic who was extremely, highly aggravated and highly violent,' she claimed, adding that the constabulary officer's actions person made it truthful that she volition 'live fatherless for the remainder of my life.'

Rachael Gore, Durham's home spouse who sometimes refers to herself arsenic his wife, besides said helium did not merit what had happened.

'You telephone idiosyncratic for help. You don't get help, you get killed,' she said. 'Never successful a cardinal years did I deliberation that would hap to him. He was a bully man.

'The 1 who calls constabulary and says "help me" should ne'er beryllium the 1 shot,' she said, earlier claiming that the ceremonial location told her she could not presumption Durham's assemblage due to the fact that it was excessively disfigured, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

'We don't get to accidental goodbye,' she lamented. 

Friends person described Durham, a existent property cause and location warranty salesman, arsenic 'a beauteous soul' who was a small 'goofy.'

'He lit up a room. He had a immense personality. Everybody who met him loved him,' Cinquegrani said.

Steve Cowan, different friend, said helium was 'goofy.'

'"Goofy" would beryllium the connection I use, large and goofy - helium danced his dance. That's his thing,' Cowan said.

Both friends besides said Durham was a large sports fan.

They are present focusing their efforts connected helping Isabella, arsenic good arsenic Gore and her son, successful the aftermath of Durham's decease - mounting up an online fundraiser for them.

 'His girl doesn't person her sole supplier anymore,' Cinquegrani said. 

'And she's astir apt not going to beryllium capable to unrecorded wherever she grew up,' helium said, arsenic Isabella told however she 'heard the gunshots.'

The GoFundMe had raised implicit $9,800 arsenic of Sunday night.