Calin Devonte Roquemore, a 23-year-old African-American from East Texas, did not stop when a white trooper tried to pull him over for speeding on Texas 149, a two-lane country road, two hours after sunset on Feb. 13, 2016.
Instead, Roquemore sped through a maze of streets to a trailer park, jumped out of his Chevrolet Impala and ran. The trooper from the Texas Department of Public Safety gave chase, drew his gun and repeatedly hollered at Roquemore to stop and put his hands up, according to a recording from the trooper’s dashcam and body-worn microphone.
But Roquemore, a former high school football player, kept running until he tripped and fell. In the recording, Trooper Daniel McBride can be heard saying “put your hands up, hands up get down!” right before he shot Roquemore seven times, including five times in the back.
