Police Seek Warrant for Officer After Fatal Shooting; New Video of Deadly Cincinnati Shooting Released
CHRISTI PAUL, CO-HOST, NEW DAY SATURDAY: Just about 32 minutes past the hour on a Saturday morning, good to see you, I'm Christi Paul --</s>VICTOR BLACKWELL, CO-HOST, NEW DAY SATURDAY: I'm Victor Blackwell, good to be with you. Dallas police are now seeking a manslaughter warrant for an officer allegedly -- who allegedly killed her neighbor. The officer shot the 26-year-old man after she entered his apartment, allegedly mistaking it for her own.</s>PAUL: Andrea Lucia with Cnn affiliate "Ktvt" going to walk us through what's happened here and where we are now.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Friends, I know we've come gathered together because pressed upon our hearts is the death of this young man.</s>ANDREA LUCIA, KTVT REPORTER (voice-over): At a candlelight vigil, the crowd called for an arrest.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And we're here to ask that this officer be treated like any other murder suspect.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The pop, you know, and it's just like, I mean, it's been ringing in my ear all day.</s>LUCIA: Lloyd Harvey and his girlfriend heard the gunshot that killed their next door neighbor, Botham Jean.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm shocked, this is just insane that this would happen to someone so nice and kind.</s>LUCIA: Dallas police say the yet to be named officer who fired the shot was coming home from work and still in uniform when she mistook Jean's apartment for her own. Sources say she lived just one floor down.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right in front of his house, you have a red floor mat. Like it's a bright red floor mat. How do you think that that's your apartment?</s>RENEE HALL, CHIEF OF POLICE, DALLAS POLICE DEPARTMENT: Based on what we know right now, that warrant is for manslaughter.</s>LUCIA: Dallas Police Chief Renee Hall said due to the circumstances, she personally requested a warrant be obtained for the officer's arrest, and called on the Texas Rangers to conduct their own independent investigation.</s>HALL: We have ceased handling it under our normal officer-involved shooting protocol.</s>LUCIA: But with hours ticking away, activists have grown eager to see some sign of justice for Jean.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, he wasn't doing anything wrong, he wasn't trying to do anything wrong, but sit in his home trying to relax, getting ready for the next day of work.</s>PAUL: Well, police say the officer's blood is being tested now for drugs and alcohol.</s>BLACKWELL: We've got new video this morning from the fatal shooting in Cincinnati. Omar Enrique Santa Perez killed three men and injured two others in a building of his city's fountain square. Edited surveillance video shows the shooter in a white dressed shirt walking through the Fifth-Third's center's lobby as he shot off these bullets.</s>BLACKWELL: Now, this is the body cam from a police officer as it shows outside of them after shooting the glass you see that's breaking. Investigators still are trying to find the motive for the shooting.</s>PAUL: Now, stay with us here because we're going to talk about Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren. She wants the senior administration officials to invoke the 25th Amendment if they believe President Trump cannot do his job. More fallout now from that explosive "New York Times" op ed.</s>BLACKWELL: Plus, more than 400 migrant children taken from their parents are still in custody with the federal government -- of the federal government. The fight to reunite the families is an ongoing, uphill fight. Our political correspondent Tal Kopan will have the very latest.