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St. Anthony Police confirmed the shooting, which happened in the area of Larpenteur Avenue and Fry Street. Castile’s girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, and her daughter were in the car at the time. Reynolds is in custody Wednesday night.
A video circulating on Facebook, which was pulled from the site before midnight, was filmed by Reynolds and appears to show the aftermath of the shooting.
Reynolds, who was driving, says in the video that she was pulled over for a broken tail light. She says police asked Castile, who was in the front passenger seat, for his license and registration.
She says as Castile was reaching for his wallet, he informed officers that he had a firearm in his possession, and a conceal-and-carry permit.
Reynolds says in the video that an officer then shot her boyfriend four times.
The officer in the video appears to be very emotional, and at one point screams, “I told him not to reach for it! I told him to get his hand out …”
Reynolds, who is very composed, tells the officer, “You told him to get his I.D., sir, his driver’s license.”
She pans the cellphone camera over Castile, who is covered in blood.
“Oh my God, please don’t tell me he’s dead. Please don’t tell me my boyfriend just went like that,” Reynolds said.
The officer, whose gun is drawn the entire time, tells Reynolds to, “Keep your hands where they are.”
“Yes I will, sir, I’ll keep my hands where they are,” she said.
Reynolds is then told to get out of the car. Her cellphone shows several officers with guns drawn, and one officer is holding her 4-year-old daughter, who was originally in the back seat of the car. It is not clear if she was in the car when Castile was shot.
Valerie Castile tells WCCO that her son was a cafeteria supervisor at J.J. Hill Montessori School in St. Paul. He would have turned 33 on Friday.
The St. Anthony Police Department provides police services for the neighboring cities of Falcon Heights and Lauderdale.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is investigating.
guy gets shot trying to get his license, seat belt on and everythingnot clicking. can someone give me a quick breakdown?