(WARNING: 21+) The NOPD released to media video footage captured from officer’s body worn and dashboard cameras during an officer-involved shooting incident on January 25, 2020. The video, released under the department’s protocol regarding instances of officer-involved shootings, clearly shows how quickly events unfolded from the time NOPD officers first arrived at the scene to the moment when the use of deadly force was required. #shooting

At 7:26 a.m. on January 25, NOPD received multiple calls of an intoxicated subject pointing a firearm at random individuals in the area of Bourbon and St. Louis streets. People fleeing the scene flagged down responding officers and directed them to the armed subject, later identified as 25-year-old Austin Bentel, who was heard and observed to be screaming and shouting profanities as he walked along the street.

Seconds after the first officer arrived on scene, Bentel was seen to approach the officer, draw a firearm and point it at that officer before the officer could exit her marked police unit. The officer, along with three other officers approaching on foot, then fired a total of 15 shots at Bentel, which resulted in Bentel being struck multiple times. Bentel was transported to an area hospital to receive treatment for his injuries. None of the officers were injured as a result of the shooting. “As shown in the video, officers had little time to react other than to defend themselves against the aggressive actions of this perpetrator,” NOPD Superintendent Shaun Ferguson said. Per standard protocol in a case when an officer’s duty weapon is discharged, the NOPD Public Integrity Bureau’s Force Investigation Team (FIT) immediately opened an investigation into the incident.

The four responding officers in this incident were:
Officer Ryeisha Warren (3 years, 11 months with NOPD)
Officer Steven Nolan (12 years, 9 months with NOPD)
Recruit Matthew Tippett (10 months with NOPD)
Recruit Sierra Cochran (6 months with NOPD)

Of the 15 total shots fired by officers, Warren and Tippett each fired six shots, while Nolan fired two shots and Cochran fired one shot. A 9mm semi -automatic handgun was recovered from Bentel’s possession in this incident. Investigators believe Bentel was pulling the trigger during the incident, but that his firearm did not discharge. It was later learned there was no magazine or ammunition in Bentel’s firearm at the time of the shooting. Investigators determined that Bentel had been drinking for several hours prior to the incident. City-owned public safety cameras captured footage of this incident, and relevant footage has been shared with the NOPD by the Real Time Crime Center. As of this writing, Bentel remains in a local hospital recovering from his injuries while in the custody of the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Department. Per standard protocol, all four officers involved in the incident have been reassigned to administrative duties while investigation into the incident is ongoing.

Meanwhile in Japan ... 😂

(WARNING: 21+) The robber got a few shots. Somewhere in Brazil. #shooting

Wisconsin has confirmed its first case of #coronavirus, state officials said . The new patient, of undisclosed age and gender, is the twelfth confirmed case in the US after testing positive for the virus at University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison. According to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (WDHS), the patient was in Beijing, China sometime in the past two weeks, where they came into contact with people now known to be infected with coronavirus. It's unclear if the patient would have been aware that these contacts were sick. The patient is being isolated at home, said to be doing well, and not in need of hospitalization. It comes the same day that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that it's distributed coronavirus tests to more than 100 labs around the country. The patient's test came back positive on Wednesday, and Wisconsin officials said the person is 'doing well'. ☣️

A Florida Highway Patrol trooper was fatally shot Wednesday by a stranded motorist who was then killed by another officer, authorities said. The shooting that killed Trooper Joseph Bullock, 42, happened around 10:15 a.m. near Palm City, located 45 minutes north of West Palm Beach. The 19-year veteran had been with the suspect for several minutes alongside Interstate 95 before the shooting, said Col. Gene Spaulding, the highway patrol commander. “People don't realize when you approach a car, even a disabled vehicle or a car on a traffic stop, you are worried about not only what is inside that car and what danger is waiting for you, you are also worried about the 80,000-pound tractor-trailers that are barreling down the highway behind you,” said Spaulding. Authorities said the unnamed suspect was killed by a passing police officer from Riviera Beach, which is about 30 miles from Palm City. Officials declined to say what the officer was doing in the area. #RIP

The Hollywood legend, Kirk Douglas has died aged 103. #RIP

A shooting inside an Indianapolis apartment left four people dead Wednesday night in the latest act of violence to strike the community, authorities said. Officers responded around 10:30 p.m. to reports of shots fired at a complex on the city’s northeast side, where they found three men and one woman with apparent gunshot wounds, Indianapolis Police Assistant Chief Chris Bailey said. All four were pronounced dead at the scene, but no names or details about the circumstances of the deaths were immediately released. No information about a possible suspect or suspects was released. The shooting happened an hour after members of the City-County Council of Indianapolis’ public safety committee rejected a Republican-proposed commission to study violence in the city, Fraternal Order of Police President Rick Snyder told reporters at the scene, before adding that “apathy from city leaders is shameful.”

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT! A terrible accident in Novosibirsk, Russia. Information about the victims is being specified.

A second Oklahoma high school student-athlete has died after she and five other teammates were struck by a pickup truck while running on a sidewalk for cross-country practice Monday afternoon, FOX News reported. Dustin Horstkoetter, director of safety at Moore Public Schools, said Yuridia Martinez, who had been hospitalized in critical condition since the crash, has since died. She is the second student to succumb to their injuries. Officers with the Moore Police Department were called around 3:30 p.m. Monday over reports of a pedestrian hit by a red pickup truck which then fled. Once on the scene, police discovered one deceased female student and five other injured students, three of whom were critical. Rachel Freeman, a senior at Moore High School, was first identified by school officials as deceased. Police arrested 57-year-old Max Leroy Townsend on one count of first-degree manslaughter and six counts of leaving the scene of an injury accident.

Nancy Pelosi ‘pre-ripped’ pages of Trump’s SOTU speech, New York Post reported. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi apparently made tiny tears in her copy of President Trump’s State of the Union address — so that her speech-ripping moment could go off without a hitch. As Trump introduced cancer-stricken radio host Rush Limbaugh — who received the Medal of Freedom during the speech — Pelosi could be seen grabbing the pages off the table. Video shows her making what seemed to be a tearing motion and then placing the pages back on the table. Photos of the sheets of paper show them face down on the table with small slits on the side, near where Pelosi would eventually rip them into pieces. Pelosi’s office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Shotfired! 😭 #lol