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Wife demands to see body camera footage after unarmed husband was shot dead by police in hotel hallway when a fellow guest claimed he was pointing a gun out a window

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The family of an unarmed Texas man shot dead by police inside an 
Arizona hotel last week are demanding authorities release body 
cam footage of the shooting, which they claim was a homicide.

Daniel Shaver, 26, a traveling businessman from Granbury, was 
fatally shot by a police officer on January 18 inside the La 
Quinta Inn in Mesa.

Police were called to the hotel amid reports of a man pointing a 
gun out the window of a fifth-floor room.

According to Shaver's family, the father of two traveled with 
two pellet rifles because of his work with pest control.

Six officers arrived at the scene around 9.20 p.m. and said that 
Shaver was found in his room with a woman.

The woman complied with police and left the room, however 
officials said Shaver was difficult.

Mesa Police Detective Steve Barry said Shaver repeatedly reached 
toward his lower back, concealing his hands.

'Based on the initial report of the suspect having a gun, not 
complying with commands and reaching behind his body, the 
officer felt threatened and discharged his weapon, striking the 
suspect,' Barry told The Tennessean.

Shaver was pronounced dead at the scene.

Barry confirmed that Shaver was not armed at the time of his 
death.

The pellet rifles were later found inside the room.

According to Laney Sweet, Shaver's wife, the way police have 
explained the incident does not sound like something her husband 
would do.

'All of the details are not clear right now,' Sweet told the 
newspaper.

'Daniel passed away in the hallway of his hotel, unarmed. His 
friends and family are hurting. We want to know why the officer 
felt justified to fire his weapon.'

She added to Fox 4: 'What justified six police officers feeling 
so threatened?'

On a GoFundMe page set up in the aftermath of Shaver's death, 
Sweet wrote that the officers were wearing body cameras and 
requested to see the footage.

She also said that there were two people in Shaver's room at the 
time the police were called - a man and a woman - and that the 
two were guests at the hotel who had befriended Shaver.

She believes someone must have been holding one of Shaver's 
rifles.

'I want to hear the 911 calls and see what footage is on the 
body cameras,' Sweet told The Tennessean.

'My kids deserve answers to make as much peace as possible with 
a horrible tragic situation.

'We want to know why my husband is dead.'

The couple have two daughters - Emery, 3, and Natalie, 6

The officer involved in the incident has worked with the Mesa 
Police Department for two and a half years and is currently 
administratively reassigned.

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