LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Video reveals a Las Vegas police officer on the residence of the person who the identical officer would shoot and kill 24 hours later — interacting with that man and one other individual charged in connection together with his dying.
On Nov. 11, LVMPD Officer Alexander Bookman shot and killed Brandon Durham, 43, after Durham referred to as 911 reporting a housebreaking. The intruder, Alejandra Boudreaux, 31, was an ex-friend of Durham’s and refused to depart Durham’s residence the evening earlier than, paperwork stated.
Boudreaux, of Seattle, Washington, is accused of breaking into the house and attacking Durham, police stated. Within the seconds earlier than the taking pictures, Durham and Boudreaux struggled over a knife, video from Metro police reveals.
On Nov. 10, Bookman responded to a name at Durham’s residence the earlier evening as Durham tried to have Boudreaux faraway from the property, the 8 Information Now Investigators first reported.
Movies obtained Tuesday as a part of a data request present Bookman and one other officer responding to that decision. Within the movies, Boudreaux is recorded in Durham’s “man cave” gathering her objects.
“How’s it going?” Bookman asks Boudreaux. “Why did not you reply after we knocked?”
“I’m not presupposed to reply the door,” Boudreaux responds. She then gathers her issues and describes her relationship with Durham. In the meantime, Durham waits exterior the house ready for Boudreaux to depart.
After greater than 20 minutes, Boudreaux leaves in a rideshare. The video reveals Bookman interacting with each Durham and Boudreaux. Data present Bookman was the officer who signed off on the decision, saying Boudreaux ultimately left the house.
Brandon Durham, 43, was shot and killed by a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division officer after calling 911 throughout a house invasion. (Durham household)
On the following evening, Bookman would return to the house for the housebreaking name. Video that Metro police launched within the days after the taking pictures reveals him killing Durham 14 seconds after breaking the entrance door.
Minutes earlier whereas on the telephone with a 911 dispatcher, Durham stated that he was inside his residence together with his 15-year-old daughter and stated he was locking himself within the toilet as the 2 folks broke in.
Within the physique digital camera video, Bookman tells a dispatcher he was on the residence the earlier evening, remembering that decision concerned a tall, Black transgender feminine.
Metro police launched Bookman’s physique digital camera video from the taking pictures within the days afterward, which is the division’s customary protocol when investigating officer-involved shootings. All different movies are the outcomes of requests from 8 Information Now. Metro is not going to launch any footage from after the taking pictures, citing its inner investigation.
Metro management positioned Bookman on paid administration go away pending an final result of their inner investigation. Durham’s household has referred to as for Clark County District Lawyer Steve Wolfson to cost Bookman. The investigation remained ongoing as of Tuesday.
Final month, Las Vegas Justice Courtroom Decide Amy Wilson set Boudreax’s bail at $1 million on costs together with disregarding the security of an individual leading to dying, and residential invasion. She faces an extra lewdness cost after exposing her breast to an 8 Information Now photographer in courtroom.
Nevada state regulation requires police to redact officers’ faces earlier than releasing any photographs or video.
