SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Dramatic police body camera video shows the moments a Syracuse, New York, police officer shot and killed an armed suspect.
The man had already shot his six-year-old nephew and was threatening to shoot the officer.
The video helped a grand jury conclude that the officer was justified in the shooting.
A warning -- the footage you are about to see is graphic and may be disturbing to some viewers.
Officer Collin Flagler's uniform camera was rolling when he pulled up rushing to save a boy.
Dispatch: "Six-year-old male shot in the back."
Flagler went to the front door.
Inside, he could see officer Matt Tynan ahead of him.
They expected to find the boy, but they didn't know the boy's uncle, who had shot him, was still there.
Miguel Russo had verbally threatened officer Tynan with his gun and moved it from one hand to the other.
Six shots take Russo down, but what we can't see. He's still moving with the gun in his hand.
The officers waited it out, before finally feeling safe enough to grab the six-year-old.
Trying to keep the boy calm, officer Flagler helps carry him outside.
Then, when he realizes the ambulance is a few blocks away -- he runs to it, with the boy in his arms.
Onondaga County District Attorney Bill Fitzpatrick: "What you saw here today is spd's finest. That situation could have been far more deadly than it was, and I cannot comment enough on officer Tynan and his brother and sister officers who responded to that scene and saved that little boy's life."
Doctors are working to help the boy walk again one day, but thanks to these officers, he's safely in his mother's arms again.
It's not clear what drove the gunman to shoot his nephew, but according to CNN affiliate WSYR, family members say the man became emotionally unstable days earlier.
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