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WALNUT CREEK — A mentally ill Walnut Creek man who was shot to death by police earlier this month ran in the direction of officers with a metal bar, ignoring their commands, but did not appear to physically threaten officers, video footage and 911 tapes released by authorities showed.

Miles Hall, 23, died June 2, after two Walnut Creek police officers opened fire on him while responding to 911 calls on Sandra Court and Arlene Lane. The officers were among the five Walnut Creek officers who responded to the scene after relatives and neighbors reported Hall was having a mental breakdown.

Hall’s family has filed a civil claim against police, saying officers violated his civil rights by not using effective de-escalation tactics. The family had worked with Walnut Creek police department for years to get help in handling Hall’s mental illness, and had been in touch with an officer the day prior to the shooting to warn police that Hall’s symptoms had again worsened.

On Tuesday, police released footage from body cameras worn by responding officers, as well as home security video of the June 2 incident and recordings of five 911 calls — including those from Hall’s grandmother and mother. On those calls, both women inform the dispatcher that Hall suffers from mental illness and is making threats against the family. In one recording, Hall can be heard in the background, cursing at his grandmother.

In a YouTube video introducing the officers’ body camera footage and other details about the incident, Walnut Creek Police Chief Tom Chaplin said the department was committed to “transparency.”

“The members of our police department are deeply saddened by this incident,” Chaplin said. “Our officers train regularly to avoid using force and to de-escalate volatile and violent situations. It’s my hope that releasing this information will help the community understand the events that took place.”

Body camera video from one of the officers, as well as image from a home security camera, shows officers arriving on the scene, as Hall runs toward them holding a pointed metal bar. Police released an image of the bar, which they said was just short of 5 feet long and weighed 15 pounds.

In the videos, Hall ignores officers’ commands to stop running, but does not appear to threaten the officers with the metal bar. One officer is seen firing bean bags at Hall as he ran, before two officers fire the lethal shots. After Hall is shot, the video shows officers wrestling him to the ground.

The videos then show officers administering aid to Hall while calling for medics, with one officer yelling at one point, “Miles, keep breathing. Stay with us.”

John Burris, the civil rights attorney representing Hall’s family, said the video footage was consistent with witness accounts of the shooting that claimed Hall was not threatening officers when he was shot, and instead appeared to be “running past them.”

“The video of the shooting raises troubling questions both as to the shooting itself, and the officers’ mental health training and whether such training was followed,” Burris said in a statement Tuesday. He added that the 911 recording confirmed the suit’s claim that “Walnut Creek police knew that Mr. Hall was suffering from a mental impairment, schizophrenia.”

“This information required officers to take that into consideration in their response to him. Instead, they shot Mr. Hall dead when he presented no substantial threat,” Burris said. “Failure to comply and flight in these circumstances does not permit the use of lethal force, and all reasonably well-trained officers know this.”

Burris said his office planned to file a federal civil rights lawsuit “seeking both damages and policy, practice and training changes to ensure that officers who violate the rights of people the way these Walnut Creek Police officers violated Mr. Hall and his families rights are held accountable.”

The department has identified the five officers who responded to the incident as: Officer Tammy Keagy, Sgt. Holley Connors, Officer KC Hsiao, Officer Matt Smith, and Officer Melissa Murphy. All five officers have been placed on administrative leave while the department and the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s office review the incident.

Police have not identified the two officers who fired their guns.

In the video released Tuesday, Walnut Creek police spokeswoman Detective Sgt. Tracie Reese said four of the five officers who responded had completed crisis intervention training within the past year, and two were trained in crisis negotiation. One officer had worked extensively with Hall’s family to find solutions to his mental health issues.

Hall’s mother, Taun Hall, said earlier this month that the family had worked previously with Keagy — a 17-year veteran of the police department — on strategies for dealing with Miles Hall’s mental illness. Hall previously had been diagnosed as having schizoaffective disorder, which can cause delusions, hallucinations and disorganized speech, according to the family’s civil claim.

One day before the shooting, Taun Hall called police to report her son had been “acting strangely” after being recently released from a hospital, and to warn officers that there may be calls regarding his behavior, according to court records.

In her statement, Reese confirmed that the department had eight encounters with Hall prior to the shooting.

According to court records, officers responded to a call regarding Hall in July 2018 after he allegedly brandished a knife at this mother. Also in 2018, a 911 caller reported Hall was in an unspecified Walnut Creek resident’s pool, “yelling about Jesus.” And in 2015, a family member called police to request Hall be placed in a psychiatric hold because he “thought he was Jesus,” police said in court records.

Hall had also been referred for a mental health evaluation after allegedly leaving a Walnut Creek store with beer and chips in August 2018, according to court records.

Keagy was aware of those incidents, Burris said.

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On Friday, friends, family and neighbors gathered to remember Hall at a memorial service held at the Walnut Creek Presbyterian Church.

Friends, family and neighbors remembered Hall, a 2014 graduate of Las Lomas High School, as “kind-hearted, sweet,” musically gifted and inquisitive.

His obituary acknowledged that he “battled mental illness” but said he had “lost his battle” not to mental illness but to a system that failed him.

“This is something, I guess, we’re called for this,” Taun Hall said at Friday’s service. “I don’t know how it happened, but it’s something bigger than anything we can understand.”

Police departments all over California have begun electing to release footage of officer-involved shootings and fatalities since January, when a new state law made such videos releasable under open records laws.