SFPD Officers Fire Some 99 Rounds at Suspect in Car's Trunk After He Shot at Police

Ten San Francisco police officers fired approximately 99 rounds at a 19-year-old who was hiding in the trunk of a Honda Civic, allegedly armed with a gun, fatally striking him about 25 times last week in San Francisco's Mission District, police revealed Monday at a town hall meeting.

Police released several different videos of the incident at a town hall meeting Monday night. Some of the videos capture the suspect, Jesus Adolfo Delgado-Duarte, firing a single round from the open trunk just before police returned fire.

Hundreds of Mission residents packed the auditorium of Cesar Chavez Elementary School for the meeting, including the family of Delgado-Duarte, who was shot and killed by officers on March 6 about 11 p.m. near the corner of Capp and 21st streets.

The incident began about a half an hour before that, when two people reported being robbed at gunpoint by the occupants of a black Honda Civic, according to the Police Department.

At least one video shows Delgado-Duarte running from the sidewalk and jumping into the trunk of a black Honda just before a patrol car arrives and pulls the Honda over, followed by several other police cars soon after.

A body-worn camera shows officers yelling several commands at the driver, identified as 19-year-old Victor Navarro Flores, to exit the vehicle before he eventually does so and is detained. Officers then yelled several commands at Delgado-Duarte, first in English and then in Spanish, as he lay in the Honda's trunk, which was ajar.

One video shows a beanbag round fired at Delgado-Duarte, and it appears to hit him in the leg. A short time later Delgado-Duarte appeared to fire a handgun from inside the trunk. That's when officers fired their weapons, killing him.

After the shooting, an 18-year-old woman who was still inside the car was ordered out and detained. She was apparently uninjured.

Officers later recovered a 9mm handgun from the Honda's trunk, police said.

Police have not yet released the names of the 10 officers who fired their weapons.

In attendance at the meeting were San Francisco Police Department Chief William Scott, Major Crimes Unit Capt. Valerie Matthews, Mission District Capt. Gaetano Caltagirone and Paul Henderson, executive director of the Department of Police Accountability.

A visibly upset crowd reacted to the videos, at times shouting "murderers!" in Spanish.

Susana Rojas, a spokeswoman for Delgado-Duarte's family, said, "We don't know what happened that night. ... But that wasn't who they knew."

Rojas described Delgado-Duarte as family-oriented man who was saving up to buy his father a car so that his father didn't have to walk because he had recently had a toe amputated because of diabetes.

Delgado-Duarte had lived most of his life in San Francisco. He came from Mexico with his family when he was young and attended Bryant Elementary School, Aptos Middles School and Life Learning Academy Charter School, according to Rojas.

Delgado-Duarte's death is being investigated by several agencies separately, including the Police Department's homicide detail, the San Francisco District Attorney's Office, the Department of Police Accountability and the SFPD Internal Affairs Division.

This post contains reporting from Bay City News.