Five days after a shooting that hurt a police officer and also seriously wounded a man who later died, the St. Paul Police Department has released body camera footage of the incident. The body cam and dash cam footage are available at the bottom of this story.

Authorities say police were first called about an order for protection violation at around 2 p.m. last Thursday, Dec. 7, after a woman called 911 and said while she was driving, 24-year-old Brandon Daleshaun Keys pulled up behind her and started hitting her vehicle with his. According to the 911 transcript, the caller reported Keys had a gun. She also told dispatchers he busted the window and windshield of her van.

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says the woman ultimately stopped her vehicle by the intersection of Cretin and Marshall avenues, and Keys then got out of his vehicle and started walking toward her.

That’s when St. Paul Police Officer Michael Tschida, a 14-year veteran, arrived at the scene.

“The officer is thinking about the call as he’s going there, he’s preparing himself mentally for the call,” said Mylan Masson, a retired director of law enforcement training for police officers in Minnesota. “He’s thinking about what kind of backup he has, he’s listening to his radio, he’s getting updates from the dispatcher for what’s going on.”

The video released Tuesday shows Tschida get out of his squad with his gun drawn, ordering Keys to get on the ground. Keys, standing behind a blue sedan and next to a silver minivan, slowly walks behind the sedan and ducks before briefly popping up and firing at least one shot at Tschida, who returns fire.

According to SPPD, Tschida was hit in the leg and fired back at Keys, who was hit in the head.

“[Keys] had a weapon, the officer knew that,” said Masson. “The officer had his weapon drawn, which is proper procedure.”

She explained that was a critical decision.

“We always told the students, it’s about 1.5 seconds that you have to make a decision whether to shoot or not shoot,” said Masson. “If he hadn’t had his gun out already, he may have been killed because he couldn’t have gotten a shot off fast enough.”

Tschida appears to fire two or three shots, and Keys then falls to the ground behind the sedan. Tschida takes cover behind his squad. The video then shows a woman exiting the van and running over to Keys.

Tschida can be heard giving multiple commands to the woman, including ordering her out of the way “so I can help him”.

“You have to remember how quick that was and how many things you have to think of,” said Masson. “How many people were around? What were those other cars doing? Were there other cars involved?”

She added, “He was hit but he kept going, he kept getting his commands, he kept telling people what to do. He kept his mind in there even though he was probably in a lot of pain.”

Tschida’s bodycam shows that he approached Keys about 1 minute and 20 seconds after the exchange of gunfire, right as another police squad gets to the scene.

“He had to keep his distance because, first of all, he knew the gun was there, he didn’t know if the person was critically injured or were they just pretending they were critically injured, [Keys] could’ve grabbed that gun easily, or she could’ve grabbed that gun,” said Masson.

The video shows Tschida removing the gun from where it fell near Keys’ feet and then backing away.

The BCA says police and paramedics provided aid to Keys, who was then taken to a hospital. However, he died a day later from his injuries.

Tschida was treated at a hospital and released later the same night.

“Last week, our city experienced, in one moment, two of the most horrific experiences that a community can endure. In one moment, we experienced an officer that was injured by gunfire in our community and in that same moment we experienced an officer-involved shooting. … Both of those together are a challenging incident that leaves our city with complex layers of grief to unpack and to process,” St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter said at a press conference Tuesday afternoon.

“None of us in our community want incidents like this to happen. None of us,” St. Paul Police Chief Axel Henry added.

The mayor and police chief weren’t able to discuss specifics about the shooting or the investigation, which is still ongoing and being conducted by the BCA. However, they said the hope is that the release of the bodycam and dashcam videos can help the community in its healing process.

“While only one piece of a complex investigation, I hope the release of these videos provides some answers to Mr. Key’s family as they grieve their loved one,” Henry said. “We know the events that transpired last Thursday afternoon will have lasting effects on our community, our first responders to include our officers, paramedics, dispatchers, and our professional staff. Healing is a process that takes time, patience, and support. We stand together as one community and will do everything we can to support one another while the BCA completes its investigation.”

“Our practice has always been that we release body camera footage as soon as possible upon the ability of our investigating partners, in this case the BCA, to collect all the preliminary witness statements and the ability of the family of the deceased to view the tape. We can all remember times when that process, we would count that process in months and years,” Carter added, noting that it now takes days and helps transparency efforts.

Court records show that Keys had three prior misdemeanor charges for violating a domestic abuse order of protection, all in 2019.

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