CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Derek Stokes pretended to soil himself in order to conceal a handgun behind his back in the moments before he got in a shootout with a Metroparks ranger in a garage beneath the Justice Center.

Stokes was shot in the garage and later died. Cuyahoga County prosecutors cleared rangers Chelsea McLellan and Kyle Schultz Monday, saying the shooting was justified.

The prosecutor's office released two videos Tuesday of the encounter that took place in December during the drive and after Stokes' arrival at the Justice Center in downtown Cleveland.

Stokes was taken there after being arrested during a traffic stop on an outstanding burglary warrant. Officers also found a bag of cocaine and heroin in his car.

The suspect was hand searched before he was handcuffed, the Metroparks Police have said, but managed to conceal the handgun inside a boot.

During the car ride to jail, Stokes told McLellan that he was cold. The ranger obliged and opened the partition that separated the back seat from the front seat.

McLellan chatted causally with her backseat passenger, asking him about a previous robbery charge that led to an arrest warrant, his personal and family life.

"You couldn't find a better thing to do to make money?" McLellan asked.

"It's hard man," Stokes replied. "I actually had a job at Bob Evans before I had some trouble at the halfway house and got fired."

Stokes can be seen moving the gun from his boot to the backseat, fidgeting to fit the gun behind his back. McLellan at one point asks, "what's going on back there."

Stokes replied that he had soiled himself. McLellan told him not to worry.

"We're pulling in soon," she said.

Moments later, as McLellan maneuvered the car into the garage, Stokes pulled the gun from behind his back and shot twice as the ranger dove from the moving car.

Schultz and McLellan opened fire. Stokes escaped through the car window and can be heard yelling "kill me." He was gunned down and died the following day.

McLellan was shot in the bulletproof vest covering her right torso and recovered from the incident.