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Police release more details of Monday’s officer involved shooting (Audio and VIDEO)

Justin Matthews

HUTCHINSON, Kan. — We have learned more on Monday’s officer-involved shooting. In a news release, police say that at around 1:30 p.m. Justin Matthews was released from Via Christi St. Francis Regional Medical Center in Wichita after receiving treatment for a gunshot wound to his right shoulder.

Based upon information from the K.B.I., the Reno County District Attorney’s Office is charging Matthews with aggravated assault, criminal threat and aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer. Matthews is now in the Reno County Jail with a bond of $100,000.

Police Chief Dick Heitschmidt showed the media the video from the officer’s vehicle, which also includes audio. It shows Matthews coming at the officer with a knife, or knives, and the officer ordering him to drop them. When he didn’t and came at the officer, he was then shot.

From the 911 call, it sounds as though Matthews wanted his mother’s car keys and she refused to give them to him. That caused him to threaten her. At one point, she tells the dispatcher that he may have some mental issues and that he threatened to cut her throat. She didn’t think he actually had a gun, but at one point, he repeatedly says, “I have a gun, I have a gun.”

Radloff, a 16-year veteran of the department, is on administrative leave and will be until the end of the investigation by the K.B.I. Police Chief Dick Heitschmidt says he talked with the officer Tuesday and that he’s doing OK, but says they didn’t discuss the details of what happened because it isn’t their investigation. He apparently has not been interviewed by the K.B.I. thus far, but will be according to Heitschmidt.

Unless Matthews is able to make bond, he should make a first appearance.

Here is a portion of the 911 call. The discussion is over whether Matthews had a gun.

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