Family IDs David McAtee: Man shot by Louisville police, National Guard
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said Monday afternoon that the police officers involved along with National Guard personnel in the early morning shooting of the owner of a barbecue business had not activated their body cameras during the incident.
Fischer also said that Louisville Metro Police Chief Steve Conrad, who had already announced his resignation in May, has been fired, and that a nightly 9 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. curfew has been extended to June 8.
Gov. Andy Beshear has ordered Kentucky State Police to investigate the early Monday fatal shooting of the owner of a barbecue business by Louisville Metro Police and National Guard.
And the governor said that he wants video and body camera footage from the incident to be released "before nightfall."
The man killed was David McAtee, the popular owner of a barbecue business next to the Dino's Food Mart parking lot where the shooting took place, McAtee's nephew told The Louisville Courier Journal of the USA TODAY Network.
Louisville police and National Guard troops, who have been monitoring protests in recent days, were breaking up a "large crowd" that had gathered in the food mart's parking lot at about 12:15 a.m. local time when someone shot at them, Conrad said this morning.
They returned fire, killing McAtee. No one else was injured.
Conrad said it is unclear if the victim was the person who fired at officers.
So far, police have given few details about the circumstances and haven't yet indicated whether multiple officers or guardsmen opened fire. They also haven't identified the victim yet.
On Monday afternoon, the Rev. Steve Frank, president of Louisville's Interdenominational Ministerial Coalition, could be seen speaking with McAtee's family across the street from where he was killed.
"(His) mother wants to see her son," Frank told The Courier Journal.
For much of Monday morning, McAtee's body hadn't been moved at all, Frank said.
"Right now, we understand he has been removed from outside and he's inside the (nearby) gray building," Frank said. "It's a forensic investigation. He's the primary evidence in the situation, so it may take a few hours before they get that taken care of."
At a Monday morning news conference, Beshear said he contacted Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer and asked LMPD to release the "significant" amount of body camera footage from the incident "as soon as possible."
"I think it's really important for the truth to get out there," Beshear said. "But I think it's also really important in ensuring that we don't have violence if people can see (and) know that, bad or ugly, we're being absolutely transparent about it."
"I don't want people to have to wait several days," Beshear added. "I think it's very important to communicate with the public, especially with the tensions right now.".......
of course they didn't
