June 23, 2022
Everett, WA: The Everett Police Department released over eight minutes of footage from fallen Officer Dan Rocha’s bodycam, which captured the moments leading up to the deadly shooting in March.
Court documents indicate that bodycam footage and witness video captures Richard Rotter, 50, shooting Rocha, 41, in three times and then running the officer’s body over with a vehicle before fleeing the scene.
The department said they withheld five hours, 45 minutes and 29 seconds of Rocha’s body cam because “disclosure would violate the privacy rights of Officer Rocha’s surviving family members.”
The incident began on March 25 when Rocha spoke with Rotter after seeing him “’moving guns from one car to another” in the parking lot of a Starbucks in Everett, according to probable cause documents.
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