http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/2014/12/27/f**gstaff-officer-critical-after-shooting/20945789/Video captured from the video camera worn by F**gstaff police Officer Tyler Jacob Stewart shows the conversation between the rookie officer and shooting suspect Robert William Smith before it turned into a deadly confrontation.
The camera stops in the instant before Smith reportedly shot and k**led Stewart outside a F**gstaff home on Dec. 27.
Smith and Stewart were about to walk out the backdoor when Smith returned to his bedroom and emerged with his right hand stuffed in his jacket pocket, according to police reports. Stewart asked Smith if he was carrying any weapons as they walked outside, which Smith denied, records show.
The men spoke calmly for about three minutes, before Stewart asked to search Smith. Smith told Stewart the only thing in his pockets were "smokes," according to the police report.
When Stewart reached for Smith's jacket pocket, Smith turned, pulled out a .22 caliber revolver and quickly fired six shots, records show. Five bullets hit Stewart, including four in the head. The sixth bullet entered Smith's home, ricocheted off the refrigerator and a wall before it ended up lodged in the kitchen tile.
Audio from Stewart's body camera recorded a seventh shot about 10 seconds later, records show. Investigators found a .40 caliber casing the same brand and caliber of ammunition used by F**gstaff police near Smith's body.
Stewart, 24, was a rookie with less than one year experience with F**gstaff police when he was k**led Dec. 27. Investigators used footage from Stewart's body camera to piece together what happened at about 1:30 p.m. in an alley near Clay Avenue and Globe Street, not far from Northern Arizona University in one of F**gstaff's oldest neighborhoods.
But it was a mid-morning argument between Smith, 28, and his girlfriend over unwashed dishes that set in motion a chain of events that led to Stewart's shooting, records show. Smith's girlfriend called police after he reportedly tore down curtain rods in her apartment, damaged the refrigerator, knocked things over and spilled nail polish in her bedroom, according to records.