Body cam video of fatal Tudor Road police shooting delayed for release
APD chief cites investigation integrity for delay, among other reasons
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Anchorage police are holding off on releasing body-worn camera footage of a police shooting last month that left a man dead on a busy Anchorage street.
Officers responded to reports on Feb. 4 of a man wandering through traffic on Tudor Road with a gun, allegedly pointing it at cars and trucks.
The man — who was later identified as 33-year-old Francis Rochon — did not listen to the orders given by officers, police say, and was shot and killed in the road.
Anchorage Police Chief Sean Case said Rochon ignored officers' commands and that the officer who eventually shot and killed Rochon — identified as APD Officer Isaac Kimball — did so at very close range.
In an update Friday, the police department stated that it would be delaying the release of the body cam footage as the Office of Special Prosecutions continues its active investigation.
The department has a policy of releasing body cam footage 45 days after every officer-involved shooting, but the chief has at times delayed the release due to the “safety of involved individuals,” integrity of the investigation, and constitutional rights of the accused.
Rochon’s family later told Alaska’s News Source that he had been staying with family for the previous month while he waited to get rehired for a job on the North Slope.
His sister said the gun police say Rochon refused to drop before they shot him had been picked up by her brother just a few hours earlier from the nearby APD station on Elmore Road.
The gun was confiscated last summer from a vehicle after Rochon was pulled over for driving under the influence. In January of this year, the case was dropped and EJ said her brother got word he could retrieve his gun from APD. She said he was anxious to sell it to buy food for his family.
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