Fungus Gnat
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The campus policeman who shot dead a straight A student at the University of the Incarnate Word in Texas has been pictured for the first time.
Cpl. Chris Carter, an officer with the San Antonio university's 17-strong police force, shot dead Robert Cameron Redus early Friday following a traffic stop outside the student's apartment.
The news comes as one of Redus' neighbors, Mohammad Haidarasl, 22, described hearing the 23-year-old's last words before his life was tragically cut short.
'I heard (a man) say, "Oh, youre gonna shoot me?" in a surprised voice,' Haidarasl said. Les than a minute later he said he heard four to six gunshots.
Carter was grabbing a burger for himself and his colleague when he spotted Redus' car speeding and then hit a curb, police said.
He sounded his siren and pulled the vehicle over as it drove into The Treehouse Apartments where Redus lived. Redus got out of the car and went to walk into his home.
Carter, who had nine law enforcement jobs within seven years, responded with his firearm after Redus apparently grabbed his baton and used it to strike him in the head and arm.
During the six-minute confrontation, recorded on a body microphone the policeman was wearing, Carter asked Redus to stop and put his hands on the truck. He told him 14 times to put his hands behind is back and told him three times he was under arrest. He told the student 56 times to stop resisting.
At one point, the much smaller student managed to get Carter's baton, pin him against a wall and hit him multiple times on the head and arm with the baton, Police Chief Richard Pruitt.
'There was a lot of communication,' he said.
Carter managed to get the baton back, and the struggle continued until Redus broke free, according to police.
Carter then drew his .40-caliber semiautomatic pistol, and warned Redus four times to stop or he would shoot, Pruitt said. Then, Carter told police, Redus charged him with his arm raised as if to hit him.
