Video shows fight, mistaken shooting of off duty Vancouver police officer

New video footage from the night an off-duty Vancouver police officer was accidentally shot and killed by a Clark County sheriff's deputy in pursuit of an armed suspect has been publicly released.

The Clark County prosecutor's office Friday released all of the details of the investigation in the death of 52-year-old Donald Sahota, including photos, videos, documents and recorded interviews after a judge granted the release.

A crew onboard the Portland Police Bureau’s Air One, a Cessna, flew over Sahota’s property that night Jan. 29 as police were chasing a suspect who had by chance fled onto Sahota’s Battle Ground, Washington property.

The crew onboard the plane assisted and directed deputies to the scene. They also recorded the events as they unfolded, including Sahota and the suspect fighting.

"Are they still struggling?” said one member of the crew.

“I can't tell. Looks like they might be fighting,” said another crewmember.

“They’re definitely fighting,” another person said.

“That guy’s a cop. He's probably armed,” an unidentified crewmember said.

A minute later, a Clark County deputy can be seen pulling up in a cruiser, stepping out and firing at a man who had just retrieved a gun to chase the other man into the house.

The suspect, Julio Segura, was the man police said Sahota was fighting with.

The deputy who opened fire and accidentally killed Sahota was identified as Jonathan Feller.

Feller was interviewed by Kelso detectives investigating the shooting. The recording of that interview was also released Friday.

“I knew there was a fight between a homeowner who was a law enforcement officer,” Feller told the detectives. “I knew there was a gun that had been dropped, and I just watched someone pick it up and run towards the house. And someone who resembled what I was given as a last description -- that resembled the suspect. So I believed that if that person got in the house, they would kill them.”

Feller fired four times from his rifle, three bullets striking Sahota, who investigators said had been stabbed by the suspect during the fight.

Segura, who had shortly before allegedly robbed a convenience store, did get into the house, where the officer's wife Dawnese Sahota told detectives he went after her.

"I felt him closer behind me. I felt like I felt his hands on me, on my back. Or grasping for me. A couple of times at least. Maybe I just felt like you’re not going to make it out of the house," she told detectives.

In an interview with detectives, Segura broke down talking about what he admitted to doing.

"And now she’s a widow because of me. Now she’s a widow because of me, man. They had such a nice home. And I ruined that for them. I destroyed them," said Segura.

Segura was arrested and originally charged with attempted murder, but prosecutors filed new charges that included first-degree murder. Prosecutors said that everything Segura did leading up to those shots being fired by the deputy resulted in Sahota's death.
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