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Bodycam footage shows Frederick officer shooting Pennsylvania fugitive through motel window

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FREDERICK, Md. — Body-worn camera footage of a police involved shooting in Frederick was publicly released Monday.

The incident occurred August 1 last year at the Super 8 on Monocacy Boulevard.

Sheriff's deputies were there to serve an arrest warrant on Jack Primmer, who was wanted in Pennsylvania on child sexual abuse charges.

The 17 plus minute video begins with deputies knocking on Primmer's motel room door.

"We need to talk to you," deputies say, "About what," Primmer asks.

"You know what, open the door now," deputies answer. "I'll tell you right now, I got a gun," Primmer replies. "So do we, open the door with your hands up now," demanded the deputies.

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Police then discuss using less-lethal force.

The standoff continues for about an hour, with Primmer refusing orders to open the door and surrender.

With guns and tasers drawn, deputies repeatedly tell Primmer he's under arrest on an open warrant.

The video transitions outside where police have the motel surrounded.

Primmer appears from a window waving a gun. From a distance, officer Connor Walsleben of the Frederick Police Department, fires, striking Primmer through the window.

Meanwhile, officers posted in the hallway outside Primmer's room hear a scream.

Primmer, still armed with a gun, exits the room and is met with more gunfire from Corporal Alex Menedez of the Sheriff's Office.

Seconds after retreating back to his room, Primmer tosses the gun into the hallway.

As the hallway quickly fills up with pistol smoke, police to mask up, and eventually move into arrest a wounded Primmer, who can be heard riving in pain.

Primmer survived the shooting. Court records show a judge ordered his extradition to Pennsylvania on August 27.

Jack Primmer

Both officers involved were placed on paid administrative leave pending an internal investigation.

The full video can be viewed here. Be warned, it's graphic.