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Alabama Officer Fatally Shot Black Man In Front of His Wife & Daughter After Someone Called 911 For ‘Videoing People And Asking Personal Questions’ Inside A Local Gym

Several Alabama police officers have been placed on leave after a man is dead. His family alleges officers shot him at a Planet Fitness in Madison, Ala. Dana Sherrod Fletcher was fatally shot by two officers outside the gym on Sunday around 4:30 pm AL.com reports.

Police claim they shot the 39-year-old after officers responded to a “suspicious person” call from someone at the gym. According to WHNT, the 911 caller said, “Fletcher and a woman were inside the gym videoing people and asking personal questions.”

Madison County Chief Deputy Stacy Bates said investigators have video footage that displays Fletcher fighting officers and holding his gun in his hand. The department is investigating the incident however, no video footage hasn’t been released. Fletcher’s wife Cherrelle Fletcher, shared her recollection of the shooting in a Facebook post. According to the post, she witnessed the incident.

“I am the wife of the victim that was shot and killed at planet fitness in madison al earlier,” the post reads. “I was sitting in the driver seat of the van during the entire incident.”

“At no point did my Dana have a weapon on him,” she wrote in the public post. “AT NO POINT WAS HE ARMED. HE WAS UNARMED DURING THE ENTIRE TIME. HE WAS UNARMED!”

Cherrelle also claims another officer broke her window with a billy club, and pulled her out of the van headfirst while holding her daughter AL.com reports.

“AT NO POINT WAS HE ARMED,” Cherelle writes. “HE WAS UNARMED DURING THE ENTIRE TIME. HE WAS UNARMED!”

Cherelle adds Dana did not run and that his body was lying beside the vehicle after he was shot. “I saw the officers shoot him and I saw his body on the ground covered in blood…There was no crimes committed. My family and I were there so I could workout.”

The five officers involved in the incident were wearing body cameras. Police claim surveillance footage from the business shows Fletcher with a gun that was recovered at the scene.

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