Officer Bau Tran Indicted in Killing a Black Man at Traffic Stop [Graphic Video]

On May 1, 2019, a grand jury in Tarrant County Texas indicted Officer Bau Tran for shooting at a routine traffic stop in 2018 a black man, O’Shae Terry who was 25 years old in a Dallas, Texas suburb.

The officer charged with criminally negligent homicide.

North Texas is generally considered conservative and indicating a police officer is rare. The very same month Terry was killed, a white police officer in Dallas shot and killed an African American man while he was in his apartment.

On September 1, 2018, Tran shot the victim, after another police person saw that he had a registration violation and pulled him over.

The Dallas Morning News reported the officer who pulled Terry over informed him she would need to search his vehicle because she smelled marijuana.

The body cam recorded the incident and showed Tran standing near the passenger’s side of the vehicle as the other officer left to go back to her car.

After several minutes of talking, Trans grabbed the SUV passenger window of the car Terry was the driver of. The window was being rolled up and Trans yelled “stop,” stepping on the car’s running board as it began to move.

Trans pointed his gun into the vehicle, firing multiple times. Terry was pronounced dead at the hospital, and it was reported he was shot four times.

The passenger who was in the car was not injured in the shooting.

Criminally negligent homicide is a felony, with a sentence of up to two years.

The Dallas Morning news said police found 1.09 pounds of marijuana, a Glock handgun, and extended magazine, and 7 grams of ecstasy when the vehicle was searched.

Trans was put on restricted duty.

Written by Barbara Sobel

Sources:

CBS: Texas cop indicted in shooting death of black man driving away from traffic stop
NBC: Arlington Officer Who Shot O’Shae Terry Indicted on Charge of Criminally Negligent Homicide

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