Newly released body-worn camera video shows a sheriff’s deputy shooting a man the department said used a stolen pickup to ram into patrol vehicles in El Cajon last week and nearly hit the deputy before driving off, investigators said.
The footage from Balinger’s camera shows him approaching the parked vehicle. He turns his flashlight on and finds a man standing by the side of the truck and another sitting in the driver’s seat. The Sheriff’s Department on Friday released on YouTube video and other images related to an incident in which a deputy shooting a fleeing suspect on Oro Street just outside El Cajon on March 10. The video includes this image taken from footage of a deputy’s body-worn camera as he encounters and shoots a fleeing suspect. The suspect who was shot and injured was identified as Brenten Kinzenbaw of Alpine. The deputy who opened fire was identified as Carlos Ramirez-Ochoa.
“He rammed one of our vehicles, pushed through mine, and forced an officer-involved shooting,” Balinger tells dispatch while he’s driving away from the scene.