Overview
- Burbank Police published body-worn camera footage and a security video showing key moments of the Nov. 22 confrontation near the 5 Freeway at Buena Vista Street.
- The stop began around 6:40 p.m. when passenger Jose Domingo Ayala Alas, 37, fled through a maintenance door after denying he had identification.
- Officers deployed a helicopter and K-9 Spike to search the steep embankment, and the dog was shot around 8 p.m. after locating the suspect in dense brush.
- After hours of failed negotiations, officers used a water hose from an armored vehicle; the suspect fired at the vehicle, later pointed a handgun at officers, and was then fatally shot.
- Investigators recovered an unserialized 'ghost gun,' and police identified Alas as a documented 18th Street gang member with prior weapons-related arrests and a 2010 illegal re-entry arrest, as the community previously honored Spike at a December memorial.