After the screaming heard by neighbors, Hendren pulled out his personal revolver and reportedly fired empty shots down a hallway, then put a single bullet into the gun and pointed it at Alix’s chest, the suit says. He fired the gun and the shot killed Alix, the suit says, claiming that Riordan saw it happen and failed to intervene.

As Riordan ran outside to start his patrol car, Hendren carried Alix outside, apparently dropping her multiple times and struggling to get her into the back seat of the patrol car, the lawsuit says. When they arrived at the hospital, the suit says, Alix was “for an unknown reason” naked from the hips up; her sports bra was pulled over her head.

The officers dragged “her lifeless body” into the emergency room at 1:22 a.m. on Jan. 24, the suit says. Outside the hospital, Hendren, a minute later, is seen slamming his head through the back windshield of Sgt. Foster’s police SUV. The suit also is critical that tests to determine Hendren’s blood alcohol level weren’t taken for more than 2½ hours.