JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office released body camera video and the 911 call from an officer-involved shooting that killed a man on August 25.
According to investigators, 37-year-old Cale Tyler Gilbert was at the Dutton Island Preserve when a couple spotted him firing a rifle into the water.
When the man went to ask him to stop, JSO said Gilbert fired at the man’s feet. The Sheriff’s Office said the couple tried to leave when Gilbert asked for a drink. When they gave him one, the man tackled Gilbert, disarmed him, and threw the rifle in the water, according to JSO.
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JSO said they found 47 shell casings at the preserve.
“Let’s go. We can leave the wagon. I’m scared,” a woman could be heard saying on the 911 call.
As the couple got in their car and began to leave, JSO said Gilbert sideswiped their truck.
“He just came back and rammed us,” the woman said to dispatch.
The release from JSO shows footage of Gilbert hitting a Jeep in an intersection before crashing into bushes.
The crash occurred just after 6 p.m.
JSO then showed four different angles of body-worn camera footage from the scene. Over the following hour and a half, officers can be heard telling Gilbert to exit the vehicles with his hands up.
“Tyler, we are trying to help you,” an officer can be heard saying on a PA system. “We can’t do that if you stay inside the vehicle.”
Nearly an hour and a half later, the rain begins to come down as officers continue to try to negotiate.
“Hey, Tyler, can you come out and hand me that blanket so I can dry myself off?” an officer can be heard asking just before 7:30 p.m.
“I think he just nodded yes,” another officer replied.
“You’d be a peach if you did,” the officer said to Gilbert.
“I don’t care about that,” Gilbert can be heard saying in response.
“You don’t care about that, but I care about you,” the officer said to Gilbert.
“Any communication is good communication,” an officer said.
Throughout the interaction, officers ask each other about an alleged rifle case in Gilbert’s lap. At around 7:34 p.m., an officer said, “It looks like it’s open.” An officer responds, “Yeah, he’s got...” before getting cut off by the start of gunfire.
Because of the positioning of the officers, the body camera video does not capture the movements of Gilbert in the truck at the time of the shooting.
Nine officers simultaneously fire several rounds toward Gilbert, killing him.
No officers were injured in the incident.
News4JAX’s crime analyst, Tom Hackney, said he expects that each officer involved in the incident will be asked to justify their use of force.
“This isn’t a ready, aim, fire, and everybody executes him,” Hackney said. “This is... if you shoot, you have to feel there’s a threat to it and not just because it’s time to shoot....I guarantee that every single one of those officers will have to justify on the administrative side of that.... why they felt the need to shoot.”
Hackney added that an officer firing a shot doesn’t mean that the officer next to him is required to do the same.
JSO said the State Attorney’s Office will review the incident for any potential legal proceedings and that it will conduct an internal review to ensure policy compliance.