FWPD uses footage from new body cameras to catch suspected killer

A new tool currently in the testing phase in the Fort Wayne Police Department has helped officers arrest a man accused of shooting and killing someone on South Harrison St.

On Friday.

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At the end of july, fort wayne city council voted to equip f-w-p-d officers with body cameras as part of their standard issue gear.

Police say the cameras, still in early testing phases helped officers in the homicide on south harrison street on frid caleb saylor explains how.

A ma last words identifying his killer all caught on tape.

Fort wayne police responded to this south harrison home just after midnight friday and found antonyo stephens dying from multiple gunshot wounds.

Stephens would die a short time end r but by day investigators arrested markquiel derrick, the man suspected of pulling the trigger.

Sergeant sofia rosales-scatena says an offi new body camera captured stephen?final words leading them to derrick.

We did get a dying declaration from the victim of that homicide as well as a motive for his shooting.

So, our officers were able to use that information to track him down and find him.

Rosales-scatena says about twenty to twenty five of the depa four hundred plus officers are wearing body came because at theye still in the early phases of testing watchguardvid eo.ce working out bugs in terms of buffering, in terms of downloading.

Those kinds of things.

There are some things that do need to worked out, given their implementation to our platform, bue only had minor issues at this point, and only with a few cameras.

Full implementation of the cameras happen until the end of 2022, but rosales- scatena says officers are glad theye happy e to have them.

Obviously theye proving helpful in casee like this and we hopeful it helps us solve a lot more crime.

Wayne, caleb saylor fox 55 news due to privacy concerns, fort wayne police chose not to release the body cam footage from the scene.

Procedures on how the video will be captured, used, and released are still being worked out by f-w-p-d