Police release dashcam video of man who removed and shot a AR-15 from the police car

Authorities arrived at a request for help at Morningside Recovery, a drug and alcohol treatment facility. When officers arrived, one of the health workers conducted a psychiatric evaluation on the person they needed help with.

The worker determined the man, later identified as Stephen Matthews, needed to go to a hospital for further evaluation and requested an ambulance. The 33-year-old New York resident was then asked to sit inside the back of the police cruiser until the ambulance arrived.

During that time, the suspect accessed the front portion of the vehicle and took hold of an AR-15 rifle. He refused to listen to commands to put the rifle down and at one point fired a single round while inside the vehicle. It went through the front part of the windshield, authorities said. No one was injured.