Body camera video reveals more about what led to shooting of mail carrier

CLEVELAND (WJW)– The FOX 8 I-Team learned a dispute over a parking issue may have led to a postal carrier being shot.

The I-Team obtained police body camera video that shows an officer speaking to the victim shortly after he was shot in the arm. The shooting happened on East 88th Street in Cleveland at about 3 p.m. June 2.

“He yells back at me, ‘Man, I hit my truck. I hit my mirror on your truck,’” the victim can be heard telling the officer on the body camera video. “He hit my truck. He shot at me. I fell in the middle of the street. I tried my best to take a picture of his truck, I couldn’t.”