Rhode Island police release body camera footage of fatal boat shootout

Rhode Island police officers engaged in a fatal shootout with a man aboard a stolen sailboat in Newport, Rhode Island, on August 26, the New York Post reported. Body camera footage captured the incident between four Newport police officers and the suspect aboard the vessel. [1]

According to the New York Post, officers approached the vessel after 27-year-old Brendan Norris was spotted aboard the missing sailboat Pathfinder. Norris was above deck pulling up an anchor with the engines running when officers arrived at Newport Marina. [1]

The New York Post reported that the vessel, a 1968 Hinckley Bermuda 40 luxury sailboat, had been stolen from a marina in New Jersey. Norris opened fire on the approaching officers from aboard the vessel before police shot him. [1]