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According to a police report, Daniel Shaver, a pest-control worker and resident of Granbury, Texas, had been staying at a Mesa La Quinta Inn on business. He invited two acquaintances to his room for drinks. There he showed them a scoped air rifle he was using to exterminate birds inside grocery stores. At one point the gun was pointed outside his hotel window, prompting a witness to notify the front desk; the police were immediately called. Upon arrival, police gave Shaver and his acquaintances detailed orders for various minutes, with frequent admonitions that failing to comply with them would get them shot. Eventually, Shaver was ordered to crawl on the floor towards them. While complying with their request, Shaver, who was intoxicated and could be heard sobbing, begging officers, "Please don't shoot," made several hand motions towards his waist, apparently to pull his shorts up. An officer by the name of Philip Brailsford agressively yelled at Shaver that if he did anything whatsoever that deviated from his instructions to keep his left leg over his right leg and crawl towards the accused officer, he would shoot him and he probably wouldn’t survive. This is notated in the body cam footage that was released showing the officer followed through with his threat. In what can be seen as Shaver begging for the officer NOT to shoot in what looks like Shaver losing balance while he is being forced to crawl, he is killed and never even attended to in the brief video footage.
When Shaver reached for his waist again, Brailsford yelled “Don't!” before shooting Shaver five times in the back and neck with an AR-15 rifle. Shaver was unarmed.[1][2]
According to a police report, Daniel Shaver, a pest-control worker and resident of Granbury, Texas, had been staying at a Mesa La Quinta Inn on business. He invited two acquaintances to his room for drinks. There he showed them a scoped air rifle he was using to exterminate birds inside grocery stores. At one point the gun was pointed outside his hotel window, prompting a witness to notify the front desk; the police were immediately called. Upon arrival, police gave Shaver and his acquaintances detailed orders for various minutes, with frequent admonitions that failing to comply with them would get them shot. Eventually, Shaver was ordered to crawl on the floor towards them. While complying with their request, Shaver, who was intoxicated and could be heard sobbing, begging officers, "Please don't shoot," made several hand motions towards his waist, apparently to pull his shorts up. An officer by the name of Philip Brailsford agressively yelled at Shaver that if he did anything whatsoever that deviated from his instructions to keep his left leg over his right leg and crawl towards the accused officer, he would shoot him and he probably wouldn’t survive. This is notated in the body cam footage that was released showing the officer followed through with his threat. In what can be seen as Shaver begging for the officer NOT to shoot in what looks like Shaver losing balance while he is being forced to crawl, he is killed and never even attended to in the brief video footage.
When Shaver reached for his waist again, Brailsford yelled “Don't!” before shooting Shaver five times in the back and neck with an AR-15 rifle. Shaver was unarmed.[1][2]
