A Texas police officer was attacked by a loose dog, he pulled out his gun to shoot him and missed the shot and striking a woman standing nearby, killing her.
Footage from a bodycam released by the Arlington Police Department showed the officer approaching the woman on a sidewalk before the shooting.
“Hello. Are you OK?” the officer asks.
“Yeah, I’m fine,” the woman replies.
A dog then approaches, and the 25-year-old officer asks, “Is that your dog? Can you get him…”
In the video, the officer can be seen stepping backward, pulled out his handgun, and fired three shots toward the dog.
“What the f***?” the woman, who appears to be standing several feet away, is heard screaming. “Oh my god!”
The woman was identified as 30-year-old Margarita Victoria Brooks, after the incident, she was sent to a nearby hospital, where she died of a gunshot wound to the chest. The dog was taken to a shelter and appeared to have suffered a grazing bullet wound.
The officer, firefighters, and paramedics had initially been called to the scene after a report of a woman lying on the grass, police officials said.
“The officer joined the department in 2012 and had completed field training,” said Arlington Police Chief Will Johnson.
“Ms. Brooks was not the target of the officer’s use of force,” the police chief said. “That said, we know as police officers we are accountable for our actions and that our actions are subject to thorough review and analysis.”
According to the Dallas Morning News, Brooks was the daughter of an Arlington fire captain and frequented a shopping center in the area.
“Our hearts are broken for the Brooks family and the officer involved,” Johnson said at a press conference. “This is not the outcome that the officer wanted, nor the outcome the department wanted.”