LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A 17-year-old suspect in a recent homicide is in critical condition after being shot by Louisville Metro Police on Tuesday.
Police are limited in what they can say at the moment but a neighbor shared with WDRB what he saw and heard.
"So I heard a commotion back in the back because apartments right behind me," witness Larry Bradford said.
Louisville police responding to a "critical incident" in the Wilder Park neighborhood at South Third Street and West Kenton Street on May 14, 2024. (WDRB Image)
As soon as he heard the commotion, Bradford grabbed his cellphone.
"By the time I got my phone, I looked out the window and the guy was running across the street," Bradford said. "That's when I started taping."
The video shows a confrontation between LMPD and a suspect in a recent homicide.
"He was going across the street, they were telling them stop, stop and drop it," Bradford said.
Bradford said the suspect had a gun and was tackled by police.
"When they tackled him a shot went off and then a second shot went not two seconds after that," Bradford said.
Bradford said there was also another suspect involved.
"And while he was laying there, they was chasing the other guy across the street," Bradford said. They got him right between the houses right there."
"When officers approached the suspect he displayed a firearm and began to flee from detectives," Bradford said.
At the scene on Tuesday, Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel's description of the confrontation matched what Bradford and other witnesses saw.
"After multiple requests to release the gun, the suspect discharged the firearm at which point one of our officers returned fire, striking the suspect one time," Gwinn-Villaroel said Tuesday.
"And they tried everything they could," Bradford said.
Meanwhile, after the shooting, Bradford said police may have saved the suspect's life.
"The ambulance was parked around the corner and when they came around, they put him on the board and took him to the hospital but they tried everything. They even tried to get him to stop," Bradford said.
Anyone with information is asked to call LMPD's anonymous Crime Tip Line at (502) 574-LMPD (5673). Tips can also be submitted anonymously through the department's Crime Tip Portal by clicking here.
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