• Man threatened wife while on the phone with 911

neighborhood south Carmel Valley Road.

Young’s wife told the dispatcher she had “an inebriated person” in the house, whom she later identified as her husband.

“I simply want (him) to leave the room that I’m in,” she told the dispatcher.

She later put the phone on speaker, hoping it would prompt Young to leave the room, but he refused several times, saying he owned the home, not her.

At one point, Young can be heard on the recording telling his wife, “You know where this is going. I’m going to pull out a gun. It’s going to be unloaded.” Moments later, Young told his wife twice that “It’s going to be suicide by cop.”

Young repeated that same threat to the dispatcher, who asked him how he intended to do that. Young said he would come out with a gun “and you guys are going to shoot.” of

Because of the threats, officers hung back when they first responded to the home, but approached the couple on their front porch after the dispatcher reported hearing a possible scuffle in the background of the call, police homicide Capt. Richard Freedman said last week.

In the body-worn camera videos, officers are seen approaching the porch and asking Young’s wife, who is seated in his lap, to come to them. The videos show she is initially reluctant, but as the officers approach, she stands, and one officer grabs Young by the arms and pulls him to his feet out of a chair.

As Young stands, he reaches for a revolver tucked into the back of his pants, the videos show. Several officers seem to notice it at the same time, and one shouts “gun!”

With one officer restraining Young’s arms from behind, the videos show he was able to bring the weapon toward the front of his body, though it appeared he fum

bled with it and was unable to raise it above his midsection. From close range, Beck, who was standing in front of Young, shoots him once in the abdomen.

Young’s wife can be heard in the video repeatedly shouting at the officers, asking them, “What the hell are you doing?” She can be heard complaining of pain in her arm as two officers, including one holding a rifle, pin her against a front door.

She declined to comment Thursday when reached by phone.

Police said Thursday that Young pointed the gun “in multiple directions, including the direction of officers,” and that he did not drop the weapon until after Beck shot him.

Police have not said if the revolver was loaded.

Beck was placed on administrative leave, a standard procedure as the Police Department’s homicide unit investigates.

Young was the ninth person shot by San Diego police officers in 2020. A 10th person — 39-year-old Jose Alfredo Castro-Gutierrez — was shot by a San Diego officer Monday.

Six of the shootings, including that of CastroGutierrez on Monday — were fatal.

Countywide in 2020, law enforcement officers have shot 16 people, eight of them fatally.

Law enforcement officers in the county shot 10 people in 2019, 11 in 2018, 20 in 2017 and 17 in 2016.