

Then Scott is shot at four times by Vinson, who’s off camera at the time.īody camera footage shows an officer racing to the scene. Under mounting pressure from the public, Charlotte police released dashcam and body camera footage of the shooting over the weekend.ĭashcam footage shows an officer in plain clothes with his weapon drawn on Scott as he exits an SUV and begins walking backward. “We know and we can see with our own eyes what happened in the moments that matter. “At the end of the day, regardless of what salacious facts come out about his past, none of that affects whether or not he deserved to be shot,” Bamberg said. Justin Bamberg, an attorney representing the Scott family, says information in the 2015 court filing has nothing to do with last week’s shooting.

“He has a 9mm and threatened to use it last night. She said her husband had hit her 8-year-old son in the head three times and had kicked her. “He said he is a ‘killer’ and we should know that,” Rakeyia Scott said. In those court filings obtained by CNN, Rakeyia Scott said her husband had threatened to kill her with a gun. Rakeyia Scott two weeks later dropped her request, writing: “He is no longer a threat to me and my family.” Keith Scott also had hit her and a child, she said.Īuthorities tried to find Keith Scott, but he had moved to South Carolina. In fall 2015, Rakeyia Scott asked a court in Gaston County, not far from Charlotte, for a domestic violence protective order against her husband, saying he had a gun and threatened to kill her with it.
