Cop Sued After Shooting Suspect in Back

"Stomper, AJ!" Rare Bodycam and Dashcam footage out of Kentucky shows a state troopers response to serve an arrest warrant. "Tubber 37" "Yellow Norbo 8" "Mission set, camera" "Lail and the driver seepings and out-watter, more drivers" "Preston, let's go right now, people towards their 600-bedroom" "We're coming up on the bedrooms right now, we're going to leave travel" "Take a left, take a left on, whisper and heal us" "Let's go back over" "Gun on, man over up, start going" "Take a left, continue on middle ground, we'll come up" "One or six on out, whisper and heal us, take a right home, whisper and heal us" "I didn't know what to eat" "There's light traffic, if I get an arm with you" "I didn't know what to eat" "Sing with me" "Tubber 87, just negative on that front now" "Turlock there, butter wood way, take a right home, butter wood way" "Tubber and bricks were avenue, taking a left on bricks were avenue" "Take a right home, take a left" "No, we're not coming there, can I?" "I'm not sure that we're right now, we just took a left" "Tubber 87, just negative on that front now" "Tubber 87, just negative on that front now" "Tubber 87, just negative on that front now" "The hill green street, taking a right on the hill green street" "Take a left on C-Zero bridge drop" "These will reach into the spot that the emergency's reaching for the console" "Take a right on the firm hill street" "I'm not a big hungry, how close am I going?" "Take a left on the firm hill corner" "It's a close act today" "Tubber 87, just negative on that front now" "Take a right on the firm hill street" "Tubber 87, just negative on that front now" "Tubber 87, just negative on that front now" "Take a left on the firm hill corner" "Tubber 87, just negative on that front now" "Still on all the roads, these have full miles an hour" "It's turning between 70 and full miles an hour and a half" There it goes. It's getting longer and I'm not even having that much fever. Coming out on veterans right now. Like Morgan Town Road, left on Morgan Town Road. Coming up on the intersection of veterans and Morgan Town Road. [Music] Look around, going back on moving counter right to workstown. [Music] [Music] Taking left on, will be lane. [Music] [Music] ♪ ♪ Rigged out! Rigged out! Rigged out! [crickets chirping] [crickets chirping] [crickets chirping] [crickets chirping] Put me up, put me up! Don't leave me! Shot fired, shot fired! Shot fired, shot fired, shot fired, shot fired! Show me your aim, show me your aim! I've got a gun in his hands! Yeah! You know what? Go! Oh look! Go! Show me your hands! Go ahead now, mother! Show me your f---er head! Shut up! Oh your sh---er head! That way, gunpoint! Oh shoot! Oh shoot! So be right. Don't you move someone getting through it so it can see his hands better [Cheers] Get it back down! Get back down! Get it back down! Get it back down! He's running! He's been shot! He's running! He's been shot! He's been shot! He's shot! He's running! He's running! He's running! He has been shot! We're wondering we've got him. Because he has been shot. We're trying to count him. We're doing him as well. I'm going to give me your other hand, he's dead, he's dead, he's dead, he's dead, he's gone, - Oh! Oh! - Here, I've got this! - Let's go, let's go, give me your hand! - There you go, there you go, there you go, there you go. - Where's the gun? - Hey, up there! - We gotta be careful. - I'm gonna make a move on me. - I don't wish that I, let's go. - All right, back here, back here. - I'm gonna make a move right here. - I gotta make it, I gotta make it. - Oh! - Let's check the hang on. We have a assignment, thank you. Let me hit the back one. It's like three long, and I got hit three times. No exit wound here. Hang in there, Chris. Yeah, down to there, Chris. How many rounds do you have? I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. Hey, let's roll it toward you, doc. One, two, three. Hey, stay, stay, wait, stay, wait. Stay, wait for me, okay? and do some dents. Hey, we're gonna make sure, okay buddy? Okay, we were running this way and heard the shot over here Yeah, you tried it. I know I saw him with a taser out. I think he was around here when he shot because we didn't have sight of him Hey, what's your name, man? Hey talk to Chris. Hey, Chris talk to me man. Don't fall asleep on me like that. You stay awake, buddy Hey, be a mess in here. I need you a mess in here right now. Can y'all make sure I know where you go? Stay awake for me. Chris, Chris talk to me. Hey Chris Don't go to sleep. Let's shot find this gun. You start up there. I want you to walk this guy from fence to fence, okay? I'm gonna start down here. I did not I showed up after the I was I was I was catching up. They said shots fired then I got out. I saw him laying in the yard here. He hopped the fence and that's whenever I Caught him over here. Do you get physically got a hold of? Yeah, you didn't know he was shot at that point. I heard shots fires on hard I didn't know if he was shot or not. Oh, but you didn't see him and he didn't see me. I did not know. Yeah, okay. I don't know where you're all right. I just Gonna go ahead. You're in car camera off and your car camera off. I'm gonna cease recording and save as a case. This suspect was identified as 44-year-old Christopher Pearson. He was transported to the hospital treated for his two gunshot wounds and was later medically cleared. The incident began when the primary trooper attempted a traffic stop to serve a theft-related arrest warrant. Following the arrest, no firearm was recovered after a search of Pearson, his car, and the surrounding area. Subsequently, Pearson and his attorneys filed a lawsuit against the trooper who discharged his weapon. Kentucky state patrol trooper, Grant Robertson. The lawsuit alleges the trooper acted with negligence and committed battery against Pearson for shooting him in the back while he was unarmed and posed no imminent threat. According to court records, Pearson was charged with felony first degree want an endangerment of a police officer, felony first degree fleeing or evading police, felony first degree trafficking a controlled substance, and resisting arrest. He took a plea deal, pleading guilty to all charges in exchange for a 10-year prison sentence. While he's in prison, Pearson's civil lawsuit is proceeding in U.S. federal district court and his lawsuit has so far survived attempts to have it dismissed. Separately, the trooper's use of force was turned over to the Warren County Commonwealth attorney's office for review. As of the time of publication, we are unaware of any decision regarding the legality of the trooper's use of force. I'm going to be honest, I question the shooting here because if I haven't clearly seen a gun, I want more before I start sitting rounds out, especially as somebody running away. And if he's shot in the back, you better be able to explain why those rounds left your gun. That's exactly why we're working with Pireless VR to help improve real-world training for police officers. Now those simulator allows trainers to take real incidents like the ones you see right here on Midwest safety and recreate them as VR training scenarios. Now just take a look at this one. The moment in the field has actually been recreated. The suspect sitting there his hands aren't clearly seen and officers still believe there could be a gun and now the officer training has to decide how to approach. We know now no gun was recovered but when you're training through this scenario, you don't know how it's going to end and that's what I like about this because officers can work through communication, the escalation, recognizing the threat. A use of force decisions can a safe environment because you don't want the first time an officer has to make a decision like this to be when somebody's life is on the line.