A Texas man who managed to pull a handgun from his waistband and shoot himself in the head while handcuffed in the back of a police patrol car died of his wound Monday, one day after the shooting.
An Austin police statement confirmed that 19-year-old Zachary Khabir Anam, 19, died at University Medical Center-Brackenridge, according to an Austin police statement.
Anam was taken into custody at the Barton Creek Square shopping mall around midday Sunday, where private security officers had detained him on suspicion of shoplifting and carrying a controlled substance. Interim police Chief Brian Manley said Anam was handcuffed and placed in the back seat of a patrol car for the ride to police headquarters downtown. En route, Anam managed to reach his manacled hands round his right side, grabbed a handgun hidden in a rear waistband, and pointed the weapon at his own head with threats to shoot himself, Manley said.
The officer at the wheel, who was not identified, stopped the car, got out and ordered Anam to drop the gun. Back and forth the threats and demands went for six minutes until Anam shot himself, Manley said. The confrontation was recorded on the dashboard camera of a police patrol car trailing the one containing Anam, Manley said.
A police spokeswoman would say whether Anam had been searched thoroughly for weapons, and Manley said that would be a focus of the internal investigation being conducted Monday.
Even if the suspect had been searched and handcuffed previously by private security officers, Austin Police Department policy holds each officer responsible for searching each person taken into custody for weapons.
Anam had run afoul of the law previously. In April 2016, he was arrested on a drug possession charge in Buda, about 15 miles southwest of Austin. That case remained open. At the end of May 2016, Austin police issued a warrant accusing him of engaging in organized criminal activity involving a string of burglaries and auto thefts. The warrant hadn’t been served yet.
The officer who had custody of Anam has been on the force for 11 years.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/handcuffed-texas-suspect-shoots-custody-44650217
LIE
theres no way the pigs put a suspect in the back of their car handcuffed while still having a gun on him..NO WAY BS lie lie lie !
and than to be able to shoot himself with alleged gun in the head while handcuffed .. another sensational lie !
these pigs need to be called out on this .. wheres the dash can video The public needs to see the fabricated evidence , so it too can be picked apart..oh its gone? never existed? lie!..who is this guy Houdini?
“En route, Anam managed to reach his manacled hands round his right side, grabbed a handgun hidden in a rear waistband,…”
This happened a few years ago (posted on FTT).
They actually conducted a re-enactment.
It didn’t happen then, so what’s changed?
Their chutzpah, that’s what.
Reminds me of that other guy down Texas way who shot himself in the head seven times. Worst case of suicide I ever heard of.
One word; Uh huh……