Body camera footage of Cal City officer-involved shooting details moments before 17-year-old suspect is arrested
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The Kern County Sheriff's Office released shocking body camera video on Thursday afternoon of an officer-involved shooting in California City that left the 17-year-old suspect and an officer injured.
The shooting happened in April and the sheriff's office released just parts of one officer's body worn camera footage on Friday. From the 911 call made by a witness to the arrest of the suspect, the video details what transpired that afternoon.
The teen — 17-year-old Annette Garcia — is in custody in Juvenile Hall, awaiting her competency trial. Footage released by KCSO starts with a 911 call made by a witness.
'Okay, there is a girl walking towards Lime right now. Red bandana. She just shot a gun. She just put it in her pocket,' the caller said. 'Let's get in the house before she shoots again. Dude, I don't want to die… she just shot the gun, but she just saw my son. Sh**. She waved at him.'
The witness saw Garcia on the afternoon of April 21 as she allegedly made her way around Corwin Street and Lime Avenue in California City, armed with a handgun.
There were multiple witnesses.
'Did she shoot at you?' the caller asks a passerby in a white van.
'She shot at the white van,' she then tells the dispatcher. 'He's trying to call you guys too.'
The sheriff's office said the van and a package inside were penetrated. Two California City police officers initially responded to the scene.
Reports show while one of them — Officer Timothy Stivers — talked to witnesses, the other — Officer Michael Kelakios — looked around for Garcia. He found her nearby on Hickory Avenue, and a gun battle was exchanged. There were 15 total shots fired by Officer Kelakios.
Two of them hit Garcia in the right hip and left elbow. Kelakios was shot in the leg and remains on leave while he recovers.
'Where you shot man?' Officer Stivers asks Officer Kelakios, applying a tourniquet for his colleague.
'Right here, bro,' Kelakios answers, adding, 'She's young, she went that way. Hey, watch yourself, she just pulled [the gun] out and shot right at me, bro…wearing like grey pants, grey hoodie, Hispanic female, black hair. Go get 'em dude, go, go, go!'
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After the fiery exchange, Justin Vincent, the city's director of public safety — meaning chief of fire and police — also responded to the scene.
Vincent and Stivers chase after the suspect. Vincent detailed to 17 News he had Garcia at gunpoint with his AR-15. Garcia also had additional live ammunition and a knife.
'Show us your hands, now! Put your hands up! All the way up! All the way up!' the officers shouted, as they apprehend Garcia.
'I'm sorry. I was just trying to help my family. They were trying to kill my family,' Garcia responded.
As she's handcuffed and arrested, Garcia visibly and audibly struggles, appearing to be in pain. As officers ask her to get on her stomach, Garcia repeats, 'I can't.'
At an earlier juvenile court hearing, a prosecutor said Garcia had access to unsecured firearms at her mother's house. Vincent said the mom was arrested last week for a felony — allowing a minor access to firearms. Garcia faces nine total charges, including two counts of attempted murder, assault with a firearm on a peace officer, carrying a loaded firearm in public and being a minor in possession of ammunition.
The case was postponed multiple times as Garcia initially recovered at Antelope Valley Hospital.
She's now completed a mental competency examination by a psychologist. Those results will be reviewed by a judge to determine if she's competent to stand trial.
KCSO said the use of force in this case was determined to be within policy.
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