Advertisement Body camera video shows deputy shoot Simpsonville man in his home Dick Trench survived the shooting on June 14 Share Shares Copy Link Copy

****WARNING: Video above is graphic and contains graphic language****Dramatic body camera video of the shooting of a man inside his home last month has been released by the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office.In the video posted on the Sheriff’s Office’s YouTube page, Capt. Tim Brown, with the office of professional standards, explains that a silent medical panic alarm went off at a home on Eastcrest Drive in Simpsonville at 11:49 p.m. on June 14.Brown said the alarm company and 911 dispatchers tried to contact the homeowner, but were unable to. According to Brown, a deputy arrived at the home at 11:54 p.m. Just after midnight,the deputy rang the doorbell, but no one answered, Brown said. He said as the deputy started to walk off the porch, he noticed movement from inside the home and went back to the front door to further investigate. Brown said as the deputy returned to the front door he noticed a man, later identified as the homeowner, inside the home with a gun.The homeowner's attorney identified him as Dick Trench. Trench survived the shooting. Brown said the video begins after the deputy stepped off the front porch. He explains that audio on all body camera video does not begin until 30 seconds after the video begins recording. The deputy, after noticing the man inside, shined his flashlight on the man, Brown said. Brown said as the deputy shined the light, the homeowner, who was initially walking away from the front door, turned and pointed his gun at the deputy.Lt. Ryan Flood, public information officer with the Sheriff's Office, originally said that when the deputy went to the door of the home, he was met by the homeowner, who pulled the door open and pointed a handgun at him.A Facebook post describing that has since been deleted from the Sheriff’s Office Facebook page. Brown said when the deputy saw the man with the gun, he fired his weapon and retreated off the porch. He said the homeowner was struck several times. Brown said after a brief exchange between the deputy and the homeowner, the deputy went inside and helped him. The video shows that during the exchange the deputy yelled at the man to throw the gun out of the home several times and asked to see his hands. Meanwhile, the homeowner asked who the deputy was and yelled that he has been shot twice. Below is part of the exchange between the deputy and the homeowner:Deputy “You pointed a gun at me.”Homeowner: “Who are you?”Deputy: “The sheriff’s office”Homeowner: “What are you here for?”Deputy: “Because we got an alarm call.”Homeowner: “Oh my God call the cops. Please.”Deputy: “I am the cops.”Man: “Call the ambulance, please.” (Deputy goes inside the home)Deputy: "OK, where’s the gun?"At this point in the video,the man's wife comes downstairs and the deputy asks her to hold the light as the deputy begins to help the man. The video shows the deputy applying a tourniquet as they wait for an ambulance to arrive. The man says several times in the video that he believes he is going to die and asks for an ambulance several times. The deputy tells the man he will be OK and that the ambulance is coming. While the deputy and homeowner wait for the ambulance, the man tells the deputy that there isn’t an alarm at the home. “I saw lights and I heard my doorbell ring and I got my gun," the homeowner says. “I’m a concealed weapons guy.”Brown said the man was taken to the hospital, treated and later released. He said it was later determined that the panic alarm was received from a cellphone medical assist application from someone inside the home. Brown said there was no immediate emergency.The homeowner was not charged, Brown said. Trench hired attorney Beattie Ashmore to represent him. WYFF News 4 spoke exclusively Ashmore before the video was released Monday. "I cannot recall a more egregious set of circumstances,” Beattie Ashmore said. “It is clear from the body camera video that the front door was closed, it was locked and my client was shot four times through the window of his own front door.”Trench told WYFF News 4’s Madeleine Hackett he is recovering, but now uses a walker to get around. The deputy involved is on administrative leave. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division is investigating.