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IS LIVE IN BOSTON WITH TODAY’S DEVELOPMENTS. REPORTER: INVESTIGATORS SAY THEY KNOW IT WAS A POLICE BULLET THAT WOUNDED THE VALET BECAUSE THE SUSPECTS GUN WAS FAKE. THE CHAOTIC SCENE WAS CAUGHT ON CAMERA. THE SURVEILLANCE VIDEO BEGINS WITH A BOSTON POLICE OFFICER RUNNING FROM HIS CRUISER TOWARD THE ACTION AT BRIGHAM AND WOMEN’S. THE FIRST PERSON THE OFFICER ENCOUNTERS IS ACTUALLY THE SUSPECT, JUSTON ROOT, WHO TURNS AROUND AND POINTS, DIRECTING THE OFFICER AWAY. BUT AS THE OFFICER GETS CLOSER TO THE MAN, HE SEES A GUN IN THE MAN’S WAISTBAND. >> WITHIN SECONDS, MR. ROOT REMOVED HIS OWN WEAPON, POINTED IT AT OFFICER NUMBER ONE, AND BEGAN TO PULL THE TRIGGER OF THAT WEAPON. OFFICER NUMBER THEN FIRED ONE SEVERAL SHOTS. THERE WAS ALSO A SECOND OFFICER THAT WITNESSED THIS ENCOUNTER AND DISCHARGED HIS WEAPON AS WELL. REPORTER: SUSPECT JUSTIN ROOT WAS WOUNDED AND FLED THE SCENE. THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY SAYS WHEN ROOT WAS LATER SHOT BY POLICE IN BROOKLINE, THE WEAPON FOUND ON HIM WAS ACTUALLY A REPLICA, NOT A WORKING FIREARM. >> VERY REALISTIC-LOOKING, BUT I WOULD DESCRIBE IT AS A REPLICA FIREARM. WE CAN THEREFORE DETERMINE THAT THE VALET WAS STRUCK BY A BULLET DISCHARGED BY A BOSTON POLICE OFFICER. REPORTER: BOSTON POLICE COMMISSIONER WILLIAM GROSS SAYS HE VISITED THE WOUNDED VALET THIS MORNING. THE COMMISSIONER MADE CLEAR AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE THAT HIS OFFICERS DID NOT INTEND TO WOUND ANY BYSTANDERS DURING THE CHAOS ON FEBRUARY >> WE’RE HUMAN, TOO. QUITE FRANKLY, YOU CAN SEE, THAT OFFICER WAS DEFINITELY IN FEAR OF HIS LIFE. REPORTER: BRIGHAM AND WOMEN’S SAYS THE VALET WAS RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL LAST WEEK, AND HE’S CONTINUING TO RECOVER. POLICE IN BROOKLINE FIRED THE SHOTS THAT KILLED THE SUSPECT. THE NORFOLK DA SAYS THAT INVESTIGATION IS CONTINUIN

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A bullet that struck a Boston hospital valet in the head earlier this month was fired from the firearm of a Boston police officer, Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins said. Boston police responded to a report of a person with a gun on Fenwood Road outside Brigham and Women’s Hospital at about 9:20 a.m. Feb. 7. Police said the man pointed what appeared to be a firearm at responding officers, who ordered him to drop the weapon. The man has been identified as Juston Root, 41. "Officer No. 1 ordered Mr. Root to stop. Within seconds, Mr. Root removed his own weapon, pointed it at Officer No. 1 and began to pull the trigger of that weapon. Officer No. 1 then fired several shots. There was also a second officer that witnessed this encounter and discharged his weapon as well," Rollins said.Witnesses reported hearing several gunshots outside the hospital on Francis Street, and a valet was shot in the head, 5 Investigates reported. The suspect was also struck. The bullet that stuck the valet was fired by a Boston police officer, Rollins said, explaining this determination was made after the gun recovered from Root was found to be a non-working, replica firearm. “The investigation revealed that the weapon recovered on scene near Mr. Root in Norfolk County, which he had brandished in Suffolk County, was not a working firearm. We can therefore determine that the valet was struck by a bullet discharged by a Boston police officer,” Rollins said. The valet was shot in the eye, Rollins said. “I'm just grateful he's alive and in good spirits," Police Commissioner William Gross said.Root then got into a physical altercation with one of the responding officers before fleeing in a silver Chevrolet Volt. He crashed in Brookline on Route 9 near Hammond Street, striking at least two other vehicles, police said.At the crash scene, Root again brandished what appeared to be a firearm, and officers repeatedly ordered him to drop it. When he ignored officers' orders, officers fired at the man, hitting him multiple times, police said.Root was brought to Beth Israel Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.The valet, identified only as Justin, was released Feb. 19, after undergoing two weeks of treatment.“On behalf of our Brigham family, I want to thank the many members of law enforcement who responded to our campus on Feb. 7. We are immensely grateful for their commitment to protect and serve our community,” President of Brigham Health Betsy Nabel said in a statement. The Root family also expressed gratitude for the ongoing investigation. "On behalf of our family, we want to express our appreciation for the Suffolk County's District Attorney Rachel Rollins and her office for making it clear at their press conference today that Juston did not have a real gun; and he did not shoot anyone. This is an ongoing investigation, our family hopes to find some peace when we know what happened before, during and after these incidents," the Root family said in a statement.