VIDEO CAPTURES SCENE OF SUSPECT’S SHOOTING, WOUNDING

Newly released bodyworn camera video shows a sheriff’s deputy shooting a man the department said used a stolen pickup to ram into patrol vehicles in El Cajon last week and nearly hit the deputy before driving off, investigators said.

Deputy Carlos Ramirezochoa shot Brenten Kinzenbaw, 25, through both legs March 10 on Oro Street near Sumner Avenue, sheriff ’s officials said in a news release.

The incident started around 10:30 p.m. when Ramirez-ochoa spotted a Toyota truck parked on Oro Street.

It had been reported stolen out of Alpine earlier that day.

Ramirez-ochoa called for assistance. Deputy Jason Balinger showed up with his dog, investigators said. The deputies waited for 90 minutes before they decided to recover the truck.

Ramirez-ochoa believed the truck was empty and was not recording with his bodyworn camera, sheriff’s officials said.

The footage from Balinger’s camera shows him approaching the truck. He turns his flashlight on and finds a man standing by the side of the truck and another sitting in the driver’s seat.

“Put your hands on the truck,” Balinger says, according to the video.

“If you guys don’t do what I say, I’m going to pop that door on the car and one of you guys is going to get bit,” he says, presumably referring to his Sheriff ’s Department dog, which remains in the patrol vehicle.

The man outside the truck complies.

The video shows Balinger telling Ramirez-ochoa to watch over the man outside the truck. “Don’t move. If you move, I will shoot you,” Ramirez-ochoa says.

Balinger then appears to turn his attention to the man inside the truck, the video shows. The deputy retrieves his dog, and brings the animal to the driver-side door.

“I want to show you how serious I am,” Balinger says.

As Balinger tells the man not to move, the man starts the ignition and throws the truck into reverse.

The truck backs into a bus. The driver then accelerates forward, hitting the two patrol vehicles.

Balinger continues yelling, “Get out of the car!”

Ramirez-ochoa can be seen running from the truck. The Sheriff’s Department says in text added to the video that the deputy pushed the man he was watching out of the path of the truck.

Sheriff ’s officials said Ramirez-ochoa was cornered between a fence and a Dumpster as the truck charged forward.

The body-camera footage shows Ramirez-ochoa diving out of the way. Several shots can then be heard. The department said Ramirezochoa fired nine times, hitting the truck and the driver.

The truck speeds off after hitting both patrol vehicles. Balinger puts his dog in the back of his patrol vehicle and takes off in pursuit.

During the pursuit, the driver lost control of the truck and crashed in front of a home on North Second Street, near Greenfield Drive.

Balinger’s body-worn camera video picks up again as he walks up to the crash scene in the front yard.

After a nearby resident called police to report hearing someone in a shed in her backyard, deputies arrive and can be heard in the video yelling orders.

“Come out with your hands up or you will get bit!” Balinger says, holding his dog just outside the shed.

The video shows a man, later identified as Kinzenbaw, exiting the shed. His hands and legs are bloodied.

Body-worn camera footage from another deputy shows Kinzenbaw detained outside the shed with through-and-through gunshot wounds behind each of his knee caps.

Kinzenbaw was taken to a hospital. His injuries were not considered life threatening.

Note: The still images were not of a high-enough quality to reproduce in print.