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Sheboygan, Wisconsin — The Sheboygan County district attorney has determined that the use of deadly force was reasonable and no charges will be filed in the officer-involved death of Kevan Ruffin Jr. on July 2. At 5:50:32 AM, the Sheboygan County Dispatch Center received a 911 call reporting a disturbance involving weapons near S. 15th Street and Illinois Avenue in the City of Sheboygan. Video surveillance from the nearby business showed that prior to Officer Pray's arrival there appeared to have been a disturbance between two people to the west of S. 15th Street between Illinois Avenue and Indiana Avenue. The disturbance was at approximately 5:50 AM according to the video. There was some pushing before one person ran towards a building and the other person, later identified as Kevan Ruffin, walked eastbound down an alley while holding onto something in each of his hands. At 5:52 AM, a Sheboygan Police Department squad car operated by Officer Pray pulled up next to a silver car at the intersection of Indiana Avenue and S. 15th Street.

As soon as the squad car traveled down S. 15th Street, Ruffin started to walk towards the squad car, although he was on the opposite side of the road. Officer Pray's body camera recorded him exiting his squad car and then saying, "How you doin' Ruffin?" and "Are you fine this morning?" He later said, "Can you just have a seat for me?" Ruffin was looking at Officer Pray but walking along the curb line on the opposite side of the road. Officer Pray took approximately 2 to 3 steps toward Ruffin. Ruffin began to walk towards Officer Pray. Officer Pray said, "Ah, ah, ah can you just have a seat for me?" He drew his Electronic Control Device (ECD), commonly referred to as a taser, and activated it. Video surveillance from the business showed Officer Pray exit his squad car, hold his hand out and begin to quickly walk backwards.The video surveillance showed Ruffin begin to walk at a faster pace toward Officer Pray. Officer Pray, as seen on the video surveillance, drew his taser as he was backing up. Ruffin began to run quickly at Officer Pray. Officer Pray was retreating backwards, away from Ruffin.

The body camera footage showed Ruffin advanced toward Officer Pray at a faster pace. Ruffin was mumbling something that was inaudible. He was also holding a Sai in his right hand, which was pointed towards Officer Pray, and another Sai in his left hand, which was pointed away from Officer Pray. Based on body camera footage, it appeared that Ruffin began to advance quicker towards Officer Pray. Officer Pray deployed his taser and began sprinting away from Ruffin. Ruffin was running at a fast pace towards Officer Pray. Evidence of the taser being deployed was found at the scene. Officer Pray's body camera showed that he sprinted to the opposite side of the street and turned to see Ruffin sprinting towards him. Ruffin was still holding a Sai in each hand. Five seconds after deploying his taser, Officer Pray drew his duty weapon and pointed it at Ruffin. Within Officer Pray's body camera he is heard yelling, "Step back, you will get shot." Ruffin continued to run towards Officer Pray. The body camera footage showed that Officer Pray continued to run backwards and fired 3 rounds toward Ruffin, who was still running towards Officer Pray with a Sai in each hand.

Officer Pray began to sprint back toward the opposite side of the road and fired 3 more rounds while running away and 1 additional shot as he turned back around. After the 6 shots were fired, Ruffin was still running at Officer Pray, which is when the seventh round was fired. Officer Pray radioed dispatch, "shots fired, shots fired" and "send all units." The video surveillance showed the same interaction. Specifically, it showed Officer Pray begin to run in a circular motion toward the opposite side of the road. At 5:53 AM in the surveillance video, Officer Pray threw his taser to the ground and drew his hand gun. Officer Pray turned facing Ruffin, still moving backwards as Ruffin advanced. Officer Pray fired his hand gun. Officer Pray continued to run in a circular motion to the opposite side of the road while Ruffin followed. As Ruffin came back around towards the west side of the road he fell to the ground. Video surveillance showed a second officer arrive on scene at what video surveillance showed to be 5:54 AM. Officer Pray and the backup officer approached Ruffin at 5:55 AM. Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) was attempted, but Ruffin was later declared deceased at the scene.





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What in the phuck was the pretext to this lol? Seemed like the officer knew the guy by using his name.

What a crazy bastard chasing a cop like that.

god dam almost look like he was shooting blanks at first

Most likely his room mate, a family member, etc. called and said he flipped out and left the house walking carrying knives.

How many shots did he take? Wonder what the story here is. They knew him obviously

Not the first time I've seen tasers do absolutely fuk-all. Tyrone-1000 was eating lead as well like it's nothing.

JFL @ being a police officer these days in America.

Fuk how many shots did that geezer eat before dropping.

looks like suicide by cop again. Poor cop was shook as fuk lol. Dat adrenaline dump lol.

well the officer wasnt a white guy,the country probably just saved millions on peaceful protest property damage costs

It took 7 shots to take the guy down?!

Yeah its a dangerous hard job but they keep us all safe and most people are unapreciative scum bags who do nothing but talk chit about them and call them nasty names

90% of society will just never get it and understsnd.

craziest part of that video is that the female cop was the one that took control of the situation and calmed him down.

I've a buddy that shot someone ten 10 times in the chest then twice in he head before he hit the deck.

If someone is hopped up on drugs the only thing that will put them down immediately is destroying the spinal cord or brain stem.


That's why its laughable when idiots are like "sHoOt HiM iN tHe LeG!!!!!"

This. Ill make a guess the man

- had serious mental problems such as achizophrenia
- had altercatiom with family that called the cops

I’m so sorry for the cop and the family. I honestly think tranq guns should be standard issue for the unit on the squad that is going to respond to mental health problems and they should train to fire them from the squad car.

Yeah any time i read or hear someone say why not shoot him in the foot or the leg did you have to kill the pos?

Sure. Shoot him in the leg and let him fall and possibly pull a gun out from his back tucked or in his pocket and then you get dead.

Nope. Someone makes them selves. That high a threat level you shoot to kill making sure you go home to your family when you shift is over is and that shoukd always be priority number 1.

Well yeah, she came on the scene and didn't have to blast on the perp.

If she was first in the scene, she'd be dead. You know she ain't mobile at all and would've panicked.

People are already complaining that beanbag rounds, tasers, and pepper spray are "excessive." No fukking way anyone is going to sign off on LEO's being able to inject a chemical in someone to put them to sleep. Even if it would technically 'save lives' in some situations.

Yeah because when you fire a gun while running , at another dude who is also running you surely wouldn’t miss a couple times.....

You can’t be serious? Tranq guns?! LOL

Not only that. The police officer was one small trip away from falling and getting treated like a fookin pin cushion. Considering that was undoubtedly his first time in such a situation, he still did very well and maintained his composure enough to pull his gun and fire accurately in the face of impending doom.

lololol then people would complain you are treating them like animals. But srs probably not a bad idea for dealing with known violent perps.

and to think, they are defunding the police in places like seattle to send out transgender social care workers to take care of these situations

Poor guy was just out for a jog then gets chased and shot down by a racist cop.

Who in their right mind charges a cop? This isn't sweden or germany FUKIN LOL

People who want to defund police are people are the ones who will be committing the crimes.

That cop needs to grow a pair. Jesus. Sounds like he’s about to cry. Hope he gets a small pay raise for putting another thug 6ft down though.

Can't wait for the rioters saying knives aren't enough to justify lethal force.

Tranq guns LMFAO

Man, I feel so bad for that cop. Can hear the heartbreak in his voice.He just killed a guy, cut him some slack Jesus

British officer would have disarmed him without the use of guns.

Yank police officers are ****ing cucks.