LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — The report regarding the arrest of Auftan Edwin Green gives more details on the incident that led to the July 20 police shooting.
According to the document, dispatchers received a call about a man who had passed out behind the steering wheel of a vehicle at a gas pump in North Las Vegas. Dispatchers also received word that a woman was in the passenger seat, along with three children and a dog in the back seat.
The incident was captured on body-worn camera.
When officers arrived, they informed Green that the reason for the interaction was to ensure he was not intoxicated and could drive safely, the report said. When an officer tried to pull Green from the vehicle, it sped off. A 6-year-old child fell out of the vehicle in the process and was left behind.
Green took off, circled back to the starting point of the interaction, and then drove past one of the officers, nearly striking him, the report said.
Police fired five shots at the car, striking the front windshield and engine hood. The vehicle didn’t stop, hitting an officer in the leg before running over landscaping and a sidewalk, then reaching Tropical Parkway and striking a median before coming to a stop.
Green was screaming in pain when officers reached the vehicle, and they noted he had been shot in the stomach and chest. Emergency medical technicians took Green to a local hospital, where he was under medical care at the time of the report. The child who fell from the vehicle suffered scrapes on her face.
Detectives learned that Green had been “acting erratically” throughout the day. He was booked in absentia into the Clark County Detention Center and is due to appear in court Aug. 7.
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