LMPD releases body camera footage of fatal shooting by officers

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Graphic body camera released by Louisville Metro Police on Monday shows the confrontation that ended in officers shooting a man in Pleasure Ridge Park on Sunday.

The shooting happened just before 8 p.m. Sunday on Crawford Avenue, off Dixie Highway and north of Greenwood Road.

Maj. Frank Hardison, who commands the Special Investigations Unit, said officers went to the scene on a of an intoxicated and disorderly man at an abandoned house on Textile Avenue.

Third Division officers Devin Dawes and Matthew Aden approached 45-year-old Russell T. Bowman, who told the officers to shoot him. Bowman ran into a nearby wooded area, but the officers caught up with him in a driveway of a home on Crawford Avenue, Hardison said.

The shows Bowman was armed with a screwdriver and continued to ignore commands to drop the weapon. Officers told him they didn't want to hurt him.

Hardison said Tasers fired by three officers failed to bring Bowman down, and when he charged Aden, both officers fired their duty weapons. Bowman died at the scene.
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