Kane County • New body camera video taken by National Park Service rangers shows what led to the shooting of what was considered to be a “dangerous suspect” near Lake Powell earlier this month.
On May 3, the National Park Service (NPS) was initially alerted to a report of a man with a machete attempting to break into an occupied vehicle by the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office (Ariz.). Later that night, NPS officers learned of a man in a pickup truck “acting erratically” on Highway 89 in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, which encompasses Lake Powell.
NPS officers performed a traffic stop on the pickup truck and were able to identify the driver, Gregory Aaron Farley, as the one whom they had been alerted to earlier. As officers were speaking to Farley during the stop, he drove off and fled the scene in his truck.
With the officers in pursuit on Highway 89, Farley turned around and swerved toward the officers’ vehicle as they passed. As the pursuit continued, Farley performed another U-turn on the road and crashed his truck into the NPS vehicle.
After the collision, the NPS officers are seen in the body camera firing their weapons at Farley’s truck and calling for backup assistance.
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