Stockton Cop Shoots At Woman 32 Times In 30 Seconds After Chase, Killing Her On Site

STOCKTON, Calif. — The Stockton Police Department has released video showing a February officer-involved shooting which left a 54-year old Stockton woman dead.

According to the produced video briefing released by the Stockton Police Department Thursday, a Stockton Police Department officer was stopped at a red light on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard when the driver of a gray car hit the officer's car before driving off.

he shooting happened on Feb. 22.

The driver was later identified as 54-year-old Tracy Gaeta of Stockton.

The officer whose car was hit attempted to follow Gaeta after she made a u-turn on the on-ramp of I-5, driving towards the officer's car who then pulled over to avoid a collision, police say.

After pulling over, police say the officer whose car was hit lost sight of Gaeta.

According to the Stockton police, a short time later," a dispatcher advised on police radios that they had seen a vehicle matching the description of the suspect's car traveling westbound on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard after running a red light at Fresno Avenue.

A Stockton Police K-9 officer later notified the dispatcher that the car was at Charter Way and Roberts Road and he had started a pursuit, police say in the briefing video.

The chase continued to an eastbound turn on Rolerson Road, approaching a dead end. At the dead-end on Rolerson Road, Gaeta's car stopped as the K-9 officer began to exit his car, according to Stockton Police.

Body camera video released by police begins as the officer exits his car.

In the video, Gaeta's car can be seen moving in reverse, striking the front of the officer's car. The officer was knocked back inside of his car. Police say he hit his head as he advised over radio that he was being rammed.

The officer attempted to get out of his car again as Gaeta continued to back into the police vehicle, the video shows. The officer then fired his weapon.

16 seconds after the officer initially opened fire on Gaeta, the body camera video shows her vehicle moving forward. The officer opens fire again as Gaeta begins to drive. While attempting to turn the car around, the officer opened fire again.

“What I saw was, I feel like they wrongfully killed my mom,” said Tressie Gaeta, daughter of Tracy. “ There was so many other ways they could have went about it.”

ABC10 reached out to Tressie hours after Stockton police released the video of the incident on YouTube.

“I believe… it was so many shots, and it was not necessary for that many gunshots,” she said. “It just doesn't feel like everything was told the way that it should have been told there's a lot of pieces that are missing.”

Tressie told ABC10 it still puzzles her why her mother was in that area when she lives in Sacramento.

“I do plan on getting some more legal action involved and contacted some attorneys to help me figure out what really happened, because they're not telling us everything,” Tressie said.