The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office on Monday released bodycam video footage of a deputy shooting and killing an armed man outside the Highlands Ranch Main Event last month.

Late on Feb. 8, a Douglas County Sheriff’s deputy was responding to a shooting call at the crowded entertainment center, where Naveaha Crowley-Sanders, 23, is accused of shooting inside the building before the situation spilled into the parking lot.

Upon arrival, the deputy is seen in the bodycam footage engaging with Jalin Seabron, 23, who, in the recording, is pointing a handgun toward others near the Main Event entrance.

The bodycam footage shows the deputy approached Seabron with a rifle and ordered him to drop his gun multiple times. After two orders, Seabron turned toward the deputy, who then shot him.

“We believe this video will help clarify the facts surrounding this tragic incident, correct misinformation, and reassure our citizens that our deputy acted within the law,” Douglas County Sheriff Darren Weekly said in a statement on Monday.

“We stand behind our deputy’s quick, courageous decision-making in the face of an immediate and grave threat,” the sheriff said.

The deputy’s identification was not released and the name was redacted from probable cause affidavits. 

In response to the video’s public release, attorneys from Tyrone Glover, who represent the family of Seabron, insisted the deputy’s use of deadly force was not justified, that Seaborn was shot in the back nine times, and rejected claims he was an accomplice to a separate shooting moments before inside the Main Event involving Crowley-Sanders.

“My son deserved to live. My son deserved the dignity of truth,” Veronica Seabron said in a statement through family representatives. “No matter how much they tried to silence his story, we fought to bring the truth to light. This fight is not over. It will not be over until justice is served.”

Seabron was celebrating his 23rd birthday, according to his family attorneys.

“The footage directly contradicts the Sheriff’s shifting narrative that attempted to posthumously paint Jalin as an ‘accessory’ to the earlier incident and falsely claimed he pointed a weapon at others and turned toward the deputy,” attorneys said.

The family sought a separate, independent investigation into the shooting and demanded changes to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office use-of-force policies and training.

Arrest affidavits detail chaotic at entertainment center

A 911 call at around 11:47 p.m. reported several shots fired inside the Main Event, a Highlands Ranch entertainment center with bowling, pool and an arcade.

Inside the building, Crowley-Sanders was seen entering the women’s bathroom along with Niyonii Crowley-Sanders, 21, where a fight ensued between the 23-year-old and a former high school classmate, according to witnesses cited in arrest affidavits.

During the fight, Crowley-Sanders dropped a gun out of her purse, then pointed it and shot towards several women in the bathroom, hitting a purse one woman was carrying, before leaving and firing more rounds in the crowded entertainment venue and shooting another woman, according to the arrest documents.

Employees watched bullets punch through the office’s walls, which was next to the bathroom, according to the documents.

One affidavit detailed there were more than 60 customers inside the entertainment center and many were seen running away from gunfire, some onto bowling lanes. Some hid under tables. Crowley-Sanders allegedly shot in “various directions of people running away from the gunshots,” the affidavit said.

Some bullets had penetrated the drywall between where patrons were sitting in a restaurant, authorities added.

The woman who was shot sustained three gunshot wounds to the leg and another to the back.

The affidavit noted Crowley-Sanders walked past the injured woman, still holding a gun in her right hand.

Seabron was allegedly seen holding a black bag over his right shoulder with a gold colored handgun in his right hand, “aiding Niyonii and Nevaeha escape from the establishment,” the affidavit said.

“During the investigation, detectives determined that Mr. Seabron was involved as a step-sibling and accessory to the female suspect, who is alleged to have fired multiple shots inside the business following a physical altercation in the women’s restroom,” the county sheriff’s office said on Monday.

Exterior security camera footage caught Seabron, Nevaeha and Niyonii Crowley-Sanders attempting to get into a 2014 Nissan Sentra, where Seabron was seen yielding a gold-colored handgun towards Lorine Stegall, 22, who moments before picked up a dropped gun but stowed it away before the deputy arrived, according to the affidavit.

At the time, authorities said Devonta Jackson-Keys, 29, stepped in front of Stegall, took her gun, then concealed it from the arriving deputy.

The deputy exited his vehicle, saw Seabron pointing a gun toward the Main Event entrance, then approached him armed with a rifle. Seabron was seen attempting to get into the front passenger seat of the Nissan, ignored “several loud verbal commands” to drop the gun and he was then shot, according to the affidavit.

Both Niyonii and Nevaeha Crowley-Sanders were in the rear passenger seats, while the driver was identified as Keylonie Fenery, 23.

Seven total suspects were charged in the incident: Nevaeha Crowley-Sanders, attempted murder; Nionii Crowley-Sanders and Fenery, accessory to attempted murder; Jackson-Keys, tampering and accessory; and Stegall, carrying a concealed weapon.

Six more charged in Douglas County Main Event shooting

Kiacia Jackson, 22 and Ajie Fair-Munoz, 24, were charged for fighting/disorderly conduct. Jackson’s affidavit said she admitted to carrying “crack cocaine” in her purse at the time of the shooting.

The affidavit said that, in her jail cell, Neveaha Crowley-Sanders was overhead saying, “That’s why they got what they got, I don’t feel bad for none of them.”

The affidavit noted 48 witness statements were collected from the scene.

“Each statement described hearing gunshots and being afraid, hiding, running out of the building, or into employment areas,” the affidavit said.

One witness told investigators she hid under a table, then saw the shooter walk by her “like she was searching for someone.”

The estimated cost of damages within the Main Event totaled $4,000 “pending a professional estimate,” according to authorities.