Bodycam footage shows police fatally shoot armed homeowner after responding to wrong house

A police department in New Mexico released body camera footage that shows officers fatally shooting a homeowner after they responded to the wrong home.

“All of us – the men and women of the Farmington Police Department – recognize the severity of this incident,” Farmington Police Department Chief Steve Hebbe said in a statement posted to the department’s Facebook page.

“We will do everything we can to ensure a fuller understanding of what took place,” the statement added. “I believe that the footage will help to provide a greater understanding of what transpired.”

Officers with the department were called to the neighborhood on April 5 at about 11:30 p.m. over reports of domestic violence.

The bodycam footage of the incident, released Friday by the department, shows responding officers walking up to the front door of a home with the house number illuminated under a light. The video shows police knock three times and identify themselves as officers…