Tyree Moorehead, known for creating more than 200 “No Shoot Zones” across the city, was shot dead by police on Sunday. The Baltimore Police Department released body camera video of the shooting on Tuesday and now a family member is speaking out. Carlie McCaskill, Moorehead’s cousin, told 11 News he suffered from mental illness and felt he needed to speak up about the urgent need for mental health care to prevent more events like this happening. ordering Moorehead to drop a butcher knife before firing several shots while Moorehead was on the ground above the woman. More than a dozen gunshots were heard in the videos.Video below: Bodycam video as it was shown live during the press conference (GRAPHIC) “I hadn’t seen him again before I saw the footage and it drove me crazy. I couldn’t bear to see it. I’m very upset. I’m hurt, I’m really hurt,” McCaskill said. McCaskill said Moorehead suffered from mental illness and the last time he saw him he was not himself. “He had a belt wrapped around him and he had the same butcher knife on his side. Like he had his belt wrapped around his body, not in his belt buckles or anything and he had the knife on his side,” McCaskill said. He said Moorehead became paranoid and believed the police were out to catch him. “I guess they were harassing him and stuff like that, it just triggered something, and he just stopped taking his meds because he was going through something with it,” he said. do more to address mental health, access to care and the stigma behind getting help. “We all go through things. We all suffer. That’s why we (are) all here in the world to help everyone help themselves. And it just seems like not enough is being done. Everyone is talking about it , but when you go to get help to get turned away,” he said. “I feel like that here, it was just too late. It was too late.” McCaskill said he hopes no one else suffers the same fate as his cousin, a fate where his legacy of helping is overshadowed by a violent end. “I want his legacy to be that Tyree Moorehead tried to help the city of Baltimore. Tried to do something positive for the city of Baltimore. Although the same city that in our youth we helped destroy, he tried to help build and come back,” McCaskill McCaskill said more training is needed for police dealing with mental health emergencies. and finds that the officer’s actions were excessive.
Tyree Moorehead, known for creating more than 200 “No Shoot Zones” across the city, was shot dead by police on Sunday. The Baltimore Police Department released body camera video of the shooting on Tuesday and now a family member is speaking out.
Carlie McCaskill, Moorehead’s cousin, told 11 News he suffered from mental illness and felt he needed to speak up about the urgent need for mental health care to prevent more events like this happening.
City police released body-worn camera videos on Tuesday that show Officer Zachary Rutherford repeatedly ordering Moorehead to drop a butcher knife before firing multiple shots while Moorehead was on the ground at the above the woman. More than a dozen gunshots were heard in the videos.
Video below: Bodycam video as it was broadcast live during the press conference (GRAPHIC)
“I hadn’t seen it again until I saw the footage and it drove me crazy. I couldn’t bear to see it. I’m very upset. I’m hurt, I’m really hurt,” McCaskill said . .
McCaskill said Moorehead suffered from mental illness and the last time he saw him he was not himself.
“He had a belt wrapped around him and he had the same butcher knife on his side. Like he had his belt wrapped around his body, not in his belt buckles or anything and he had the knife on his side,” McCaskill said.
He said Moorehead became paranoid and believed the police were out to catch him.
“I guess by nagging him and stuff like that, it just triggered something, and he just stopped taking his meds because he was going through something with it,”
He said more needed to be done to address mental health, access to care and the stigma behind getting help.
“We all go through things. We all suffer. That’s why we (are) all here in the world to help everyone help themselves. And it just seems like not enough is being done. Everyone is talking about it , but when you go to get help to get turned away,” he said. “I feel like that here, it was just too late. It was too late.”
McCaskill said he hopes no one else suffers the same fate as his cousin, a fate where his legacy of helping is overshadowed by a violent end.
“I want his legacy to be that Tyree Moorehead tried to help the city of Baltimore. Tried to do something good for the city of Baltimore. Although the same city that in our youth we helped destroy , he tried to help build and come back,” McCaskill said.
McCaskill said more training is needed for police dealing with mental health emergencies and believes the officer’s actions were excessive.
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