Lubbock police Tuesday identified 51-year-old Guadalupe Esquivel as the man an officer shot and killed while responding to a report of a man with a gun Monday evening in North Lubbock.

During a Tuesday afternoon news conference, Assistant Police Chief Greg Stevens said the officer fired 11 rounds during the incident at the 2800 block of Cornell Street after Esquivel drew his weapon and raised it toward the officer. It is unclear how many shots struck Esquivel; that information will be revealed in an autopsy.

The officer, whose name has not been released because of safety concerns, is on administrative leave while the shooting is investigated.

At about 7:30 p.m. Monday, police visited the home on Cornell Street and talked to Florinda Andrada, who said Esquivel, an ex-long-term boyfriend and father of one of her children, had been threatening to kill her, Stevens said.

A 911 recording from two hours later reveals Esquivel showed up at the laundromat where Andrada works.

Esquivel had a gun. Andrada said he threw her on the ground and said he was on his way to her home and was going to kill her and her children. Andrada told the dispatcher she thought he had been drinking, but police were unable to confirm that Tuesday.

Andrada arrived at her home first and locked herself in the apartment with her children.

Stevens said three police officers arrived on the scene and someone standing by told them a man matching the description Andrada had given police was approaching.

"According to witnesses, (the officer) engaged the suspect verbally - gave verbal commands to the suspect. The suspect did not react to those commands at all. Rather, he drew the pistol from his waistband, turned toward the officer and began to raise it at the officer," Stevens said.

That's when the officer fired his gun.

Stevens said the shooting was caught on an in-car camera; he said though Esquivel's body is out of the frame, his arm - and reach for the gun - is visible. Police are unsure at this time if the video will be released.

Stevens confirmed Esquivel's weapon was loaded.

"He has a criminal history of domestic violence, including a conviction for such," Stevens said of Esquivel. "He'd been arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon previously. Now, those are not things that we would take into consideration in that use of deadly force. They're not things that the officer would've had knowledge for out on the scene. He basically is going into this knowing that he's going to a call of a man with a gun. He arrives there and, in fact, there is a man with a gun. And that's what he's reacting to."

Though Stevens called the situation "tragic," based on witness accounts, the department is confident the officer was not reckless and clearly "in fear for his life."

"There's not a normal in a situation like this," Stevens said, referring to the number of shots the officer fired. "In that situation, you're going to shoot until the threat is no longer there, and everything we can see, that's exactly what he did."

In addition to a grand jury independent review, the case will be evaluated by a shooting review board consisting of police commanders and an officer of the same rank as the officer who killed Esquivel.

"They'll render an opinion and then, ultimately, a decision will be made on whether the officer followed policy - whether it was an appropriate use of deadly force," Stevens said.

Tuesday's was the third officer-involved shooting in Lubbock this year. Arnesto Ramos was shot May 7 near a house in the 2000 block of 63rd Street after confronting officers with a machete and large kitchen knife, according to A-J archives.

On April 20, 20-year-old Brandon Leonel Monroy of Tulare, California, tried to steal a patrol vehicle before he was shot and killed by a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper on an Interstate 27 service road just south of 82nd Street.

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