Grim second ex-Actual Housewives star’s brother is fatally shot by cop throughout visitors cease

Newly launched bodycam video reveals the grim second “Actual Housewives of Orange County” alum Lydia McLaughlin’s brother was fatally shot throughout a visitors cease in California after he allegedly snatched the cop’s taser.

Geoffrey Shyam Stirling, 45, had been pulled over for operating a purple gentle on his motorbike in Newport Seaside on April 17 when he began to turn into “uncooperative,” police allege.

Bodycam and dashcam footage launched late Wednesday captured Stirling — who cops stated was on parole and had a prolonged rap sheet — getting right into a heated change and scuffle with the officer simply moments earlier than the gunfire rang out.

“You okay?” the officer might be heard asking as Stirling hopped off his bike initially of the video.

“I haven’t been consuming, officer,” Stirling responded. “I’m totally sober, I’m simply making an attempt to remain protected. Folks have virtually been hitting me all day.”

After being informed to take a seat on the curb, Stirling shot again: “I don’t care what you’re telling me to do.”

At one level, the motorbike rider stated “don’t shoot me” because the officer radioed in that he was refusing to adjust to calls for, the footage reveals.

“I’m not going to shoot you,” the cop responded within the clip.

Simply moments later, a battle broke out between the pair after Stirling appeared to take a number of sudden steps in direction of the cop — prompting him to retaliate.

Dashcam footage from the police cruiser captured the pair showing to commerce blows earlier than Stirling allegedly grabbed the cop’s taser.

“Drop it!,” the officer might be heard shouting earlier than firing off at the least six rounds.

Police had earlier alleged that Stirling grabbed the officer’s taser from his holster through the altercation after which repeatedly tried to deploy it — together with aiming it as soon as at his head.

Stirling was rushed to a close-by hospital within the aftermath, the place he was pronounced useless.

His household, in the meantime, stated they’ve “severe considerations” in regards to the officer’s actions after reviewing the clips — claiming he was struggling a psychological well being episode however posed no menace.

“Of grave and particular concern is that the movies seem to point out [Stirling] transferring away from the officer on the time he was shot six occasions,” the household assertion, obtained by ABC7, famous.

“Geoff was experiencing a psychological well being disaster when he was stopped for a visitors infraction. Geoff was unarmed and posed no lethal menace to the officer.

“The household stays heartbroken and devastated that Geoff was taken from them in what seems to be an unjustified use of deadly pressure. Equally tragic is that there might have been different choices and techniques accessible to the officer that he didn’t make the most of based mostly on his coaching,” the assertion added.

Stirling’s sister, who appeared in each season 8 and season 12 of the hit Bravo sequence, posted an emotional tribute on social media final week, saying her “coronary heart is damaged.”

“The shock nonetheless hasn’t settled. However even within the sorrow, I cling to what I do know is true: God is nice. He’s in management. I’m not,” McLaughlin penned within the Instagram publish.

“My brother is now with my mother, and I maintain onto the promise that in the future, we’ll all be reunited. Till then, I’ll miss them each single day.”