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Videos released of officer-involved shooting in Avondale

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - The Hamilton County prosecutor says the officer who shot a suspect in Avondale on Sept. 11 was justified in the shooting. Prosecutor Joe Deters held a press conference Tuesday afternoon, showing the car-cam and body-cam video of the incident. He had been reviewing evidence from the shooting since it happened. *Graphic Content Warning: Watch at your own discretion* The video shows Officer Marc Schildmeyer pulling his car up to 20-year-old Vernell Jackson. The 23-year Cincinnati Police veteran is with the gang unit. He had been in the area of Blair Avenue in Avondale trying to head-off a rash of gun violence that had erupted there in recent weeks. Just moments before the shooting, another member of the gang unit had told Schildmeyer that Jackson had taken a handgun from his pocket and put it in his waistband. As Schildmeyer is pulling up to Jackson, the video shows him opening his door and yelling to him, "Let me see your hands! Let me see your hands! Let me see them!” The video shows Jackson taking the gun from behind his back and bringing it forward. Just as he does, Schildmeyer fires two shots, one of them hitting Jackson in the upper right chest area. Police would later recover from the scene a Hi-Point .380 caliber, semi-automatic pistol with eight rounds in the magazine. "If you have a gun and these officers are telling you to show your hands, and you pull the gun out of your waistband,” said Deters at the press conference. “You're going to get shot. And this office is not going to prosecute the officer for that. It's just not going to happen." After the shooting, the video shows Schildmeyer administering first aid to Jackson, saying, “I thought you were going to shoot me.” Jackson is repeating constantly, “I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe.” Schildmeyer applies pressure to the gunshot wound until EMTs arrive and transport him to UC Medical Center. He underwent surgery and remains at the hospital as of Tuesday evening, but he's out of ICU and in stable condition. The Citizens Complaint Authority and CPD's Internal Investigation section is still investigating the incident. Jackson is expected to face charges related to pulling a gun on a police officer once he's healthy enough to appear in court.