

A woman who identified herself as Cano's aunt said she had just learned of the two Snapchat photos that she showed to police. GoFundMe Distraught family members told the news media that they didn't believe Cano was in a gang or owned a gun. "That was stupid," Bebak-Miller reportedly replied.Ĭano died in a hospital three weeks later, on January 23. That's when Cano told the officer that he had just wanted "to throw the gun away." Bebak-Miller and another officer who arrived on the scene eventually got the wounded boy in handcuffs. I can't," when Bebak-Miller tells him to put his hands behind his back.

In the video, Cano can be heard saying, "I'm sorry, sir. ".He realizes after the second shot that the male subject is no longer holding the pistol and it got tossed," the report says. Then, as the boy lay on the ground, the gun several feet from him, Bebak-Miller put another round in his back.īebak-Miller told an investigator that he believed Cano was turning the gun toward him when he reacted, shooting twice. Bebak-Miller fired one shot at Cano in the split-second after the boy reached to pick up the pistol and tossed it away. The officer activated his flashers, causing Cano to abandon the bike and attempt to flee through Gazelle Meadows Park.Ī civilian on a ridealong with the officer witnessed part of the incident and said that when Bebak-Miller began pursuing Cano, something very large in the bike rider's pocket was bouncing up and down, which the civilian believed might be a gun.īodycam footage shows that when Bebak-Miller chased Cano on foot through the park, the boy dropped the handgun he'd been carrying, which was equipped with an extended magazine. that night, he saw a person on a bicycle that wasn't equipped with rear reflectors "bobbing and weaving" over the road's center lane, meaning he was at times riding on the wrong side of the road. Earlier last week, the department also released unedited bodycam footage, a move that came before a protest in Chandler of the shooting.Īs the report relates, Bebak-Miller says that at about 9:20 p.m. Police released those photos to Phoenix New Times on Friday. The report also states that the boy flashed a gang sign and displayed his stolen firearm on Snapchat in the hours before the fatal shooting. The exchange was one of the new details found in a report released by Chandler police last week regarding the controversial January 2 shooting. The officer who shot him twice in the back, Chase Bebak-Miller, told the boy his action had been "stupid." As Bebak-Miller explained to him, and later, to investigators, he thought Cano was pulling the gun on him. Bleeding and in handcuffs in a dark Chandler park, 17-year-old Anthony Cano explained that he'd tried to toss the gun he was carrying "so he wouldn't get shot."
