MIRAMAR, Fla. — Cellphone video captures the moments leading up to a deadly police shooting in Miramar.
Hollywood police officers caught up to Donald Taylor, 32, on Sunday.
They were looking for him in connection with a string of crimes, including an armed robbery and a shooting.
In the video, he’s seen walking away from officers and not listening to their commands.
Police said he was armed.
The video shows Taylor go out of frame, after which an officer fires a single shot.
The next clip shows the aftermath. Officers tended to Taylor before medics took him to a hospital, where he later died.
Prior to the shooting, police said Taylor went on a violent four-day crime spree.
It all began last Wednesday.
Investigators said he stole a gun from a car off the 1400 block of State Road 7. Less than an hour later, surveillance video shows Taylor and another man bursting into a Miramar convenience store, where he raised a gun during a confrontation.
Two days later, police said Taylor shot someone he knew along the 1200 block of Hollywood Boulevard.
Officers came face-to-face with him and tried to take him down. Somehow, he managed to get away. Police said the man he shot remained in the hospital in critical condition Tuesday.
Investigators said he then continued with the crime spree, holding a Dollar General employee at gunpoint off State Road 7.
On Saturday, police said he robbed a Walgreens on Pembroke Road at gunpoint. No one at the store was hurt. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the shooting.
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