Bodycam Footage Of Philadelphia Police Officer Shooting Eddie Irizarry
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September 12,2023
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania — On August 14, 2023, around 12:30 p.m., Philadelphia Police Officer Mark Dial and his partner began following 27-year-old Eddie Irizarry because he was driving erratically in the area of B Street and Erie Avenue, according to police. Irizarry eventually pulled into a parking spot on the 100 block of East Willard Street, having turned onto the street at a slow rate of speed going in the wrong direction. The officers stopped their vehicle parallel to Irizarry’s, exited, and approached. The bodycam footage shows Officer Dial approaching the driver’s side of Irizarry’s vehicle, as Irizarry is seated.
Both officers approached with their firearms out. At one point Irizarry is observed holding a small, open folding knife against his thigh. He then rolled up the driver’s side window. Dial is shown discharging his firearm into the vehicle six times, shattering the driver’s side glass and repeatedly striking Irizarry at close range. After being pulled out of his vehicle and transported to Temple Hospital, Irizarry, 27, was pronounced deceased, with the medical examination finding cause of death as “Multiple Gunshot Wounds” and the manner of death listed as “Homicide.”
District Attorney Larry Krasner on Friday, Sept. 8, 2023, announced the arrest of Philadelphia Police Officer Mark Dial for his role in the fatal shooting of Eddie Irizarry in August. Dial turned himself in Friday morning at a police station in South Philadelphia. He was joined by his attorneys and representatives from the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5. The Philadelphia Police Department moved to fire him for insubordination last month after he failed to cooperate with the shooting investigation. Dial has been charged with murder, voluntary manslaughter, aggravated assault, simple assault, reckless endangerment of another person and official oppression.
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