Heartbreaking Video San Bernardino Cops Shooting And Killing Kidnapped Teen

Newly released video shows the chaos unfolding during a September 2022 high-speed desert pursuit and subsequent shootout with San Bernardino County sheriff's deputies that left a murder suspect and his 15-year-old daughter, who was the subject of an Amber Alert, dead.

More than a year after the deadly chain of events that ended with 15-year-old Savannah Graziano dead at a hospital of her gunshot wounds, the video and recordings answered one of the most pressing questions that lingered after the shootout: who killed her?

Immediately after the shooting, the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department said it was unclear if Savannah died after being shot by deputies, her father, or both.

The heavily narrated releases make clear that she was killed by deputy gunfire even as she followed a deputy's instructions to come toward them.

The video released this week includes footage from a California Highway Patrol helicopter and a patrol car dashcam. Audio from a deputy's belt recording captured the sound of the deputy shouting to Savannah and other deputies, the sheriff's department said.

In that recording of a deputy near Savannah after his father's truck had become incapacitated on the side of the freeway, he can be heard saying “Passenger, get out!” as gunfire is heard in the background. The deputy then shouts: “Come to me! Come, come, come. Walk, walk, walk.”

Video from a CHP helicopter above the scene shows Savannah outside of the truck and making her way toward the deputies, who had already engaged in a gunfight with her father as they chased him.

The deputy can be heard shouting, “Hey! Stop! Stop shooting her! He’s in the car!”

Savannah can then be seen in the CHP video appearing to fall to the ground. She later died at a hospital.