Bodycam video released of deadly Nov. 7 officer-involved shooting in NW Austin
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The Austin Police Department from a deadly shooting involving officers after a man led officers on a chase, then a carjacking spree and an apartment break-in in northwest Austin last week.
It happened on Thursday, November 7 at around 8:47 a.m. at the MAA Canyon Creek apartments at 9501 N FM 620.
Police said the incident was a culmination of several crimes that began at 3:11 a.m. when a Bee Cave police officer spotted an orange Ford Ranger truck traveling at a high rate of speed westbound in the 12500 block of Hwy. 71.
After turning on his emergency lights, the vehicle stopped. When the officer stepped out of his car, the driver sped off, turned northbound onto FM 620, and continued speeding, driving northbound in the southbound lanes through the City of Lakeway.
The BCPD officer ended the pursuit out of an abundance of caution for other drivers and alerted APD that the subject could be in the area of FM 620 and FM 2222.
"It was obvious at the time that the suspect wasn't going to stop and my officer at that time was all by himself so he decided to terminate the pursuit," said Bee Cave Police Chief Brian Jones.
At 3:14 a.m., the Travis County Sheriff's Office was alerted of the suspect, later identified as Zachary Labrie, 27, fleeing a traffic stop but the deputy lost sight of the vehicle and the pursuit ended.
While Labrie escaped, Bee Cave Police ran his license plates, making contact with his father, "His son had told him that he was involved in a police pursuit, he was armed, and he had made some suicidal statements to his father," said Chief Jones.
At 3:38 a.m., Labrie was seen on Ring doorbell camera footage pulling into the MAA Canyon Creek apartments in the orange Ford Ranger truck.
At the apartment complex, Labrie was seen exiting the truck wearing a mask, carrying a shotgun, and approaching an apartment's front door. Then proceeded to kick in the front door.
Austin Police said the apartment belonged to Labrie's ex-girlfriend, a woman who he had a violent history with, "That includes some strangulation that he perpetrated against her, she was not home at the time, she was actually out of town out of fear that she had," said APD Chief Lisa Davis.
A few minutes later, Labrie leaves the apartment.
Four minutes later, at 4:42 a.m., a woman called 9-1-1 stating a masked man with a gun approached her as she sat in her car at the Starbucks at the Four Points location and demanded she get out. He then left in her black Nissan Sentra.
At 6:27 a.m., a man called 9-1-1 saying an armed man approached him in the parking lot of the nearby H-E-B grocery store, carjacked him too, and left in his black Nissan Rogue. When APD Robbery detectives arrived on scene, they located the first stolen vehicle in the H-E-B parking lot.
47 a.m., shots taken were announced over the radio and Austin-Travis County EMS attempted life-saving measures, but Labrie died on scene at 9:03 a.m.Per APD protocol, the three officers and one detective have been placed on administrative leave.
The details of the investigation are preliminary.
a criminal investigation conducted by the APD Special Investigations Unit in conjunction with the Travis County District Attorney's Office and an administrative investigation conducted by the APD Internal Affairs Unit, with oversight from the Office of Police Oversight.Anyone with information is encouraged to call APD's Special Investigation Unit at (512) 974-6840 or Capitol Area Crime Stoppers at 512-472-8477. For the Capitol Area Crime Stoppers submission, you may submit a tip online at austincrimestoppers.org. You may remain anonymous.