San Francisco police shoot dead man after standoff during which he snorted cocaine

San Francisco police have shot and killed a man after drinking vodka and snorting cocaine for three hours.

Sergio Barrios, 40, snorted cocaine, drank vodka and wine, listened to music and watched videos while dozens of police officers surrounded him and demanded that he surrender a pistol he had in front of him.

When Barrios finally removed his rosary and moved his hand toward the gun, he was shot dead with three fatal shots from a police rifle, according to the San Francisco Police Department.

The incident, which took place on the afternoon of May 19, began when a neighbor of Barrios called the police and said he broke into their home and was armed with a gun.

San Francisco police have shot and killed a man after drinking vodka and snorting cocaine for three hours

Police bodycam footage captured the moment Barrios reached out and grabbed the pistol that had been lying on the ground a few yards in front of him

Around 2:20 p.m., SFPD officers responded to the call at Block 100 of Bosworth Street in the Glen Park neighborhood

He told police he knew Barrios from a previous incident in 2021 in which he shot his own dog.

Around 2:20 p.m., SFPD officers responded to the call at the 100 block of Bosworth Street in the Glen Park neighborhood, San Francisco Police Commander Paul Yep said during a news conference Friday.

Surveillance footage from the apartment building around that time showed Barrios walking near the backyard with a sledgehammer slung over his shoulder.

When police first arrived, the caller led them to an alleyway between a house and a garage, where video showed Barrios holding a pistol in one hand and a bottle of alcohol in the other.

When officers then ordered Barrios to drop the gun, he threw it a few feet in front of him and crouched in a sitting position. He also threw a bunch of keys on his pistol.

Over the next three and a half hours, 55 officers, including Spanish-speaking liaison officers and an armored vehicle, arrived on the scene. SFPD established a command post and staging area with the armored vehicle and formed a perimeter around the area.

Around the time police were first called about Barrios, footage of building surveillance footage showed him walking around with a sledgehammer slung over his shoulder

SFPD established a command post outside the building. More than 55 officers were at the scene, including a Spanish-speaking officer who tried to communicate over a public address system

When police told Barrios to give up the gun and come out because his family was worried about him, he replied, “What family?”

Barrios received orders in Spanish to move away from the gun, but he generally ignored all orders.

Officers tried to call his mobile phone and asked him to pick up the phone over a public address system, but he did not respond.

Police also coordinated with his family and played several voice memos recorded by one of his relatives over the public address system in hopes of calming him down.

They told him about the system that his family was out and that they were worried about him, to which he replied in Spanish, ‘My family?’ What family?’

Police saw him pull out a dollar bill that appeared to contain cocaine and snort the substance. He also drank from a bottle of vodka and a separate bottle of wine.

“He’s got coke on a dollar bill, he’s snorting coke,” police were heard saying on body-worn camera footage.

“The cola is starting,” she was heard saying moments later. “He had another round of coke, he’s snorting more cocaine.”

When Barrios was shot dead with three fatal shots from a police rifle, he collapsed to the ground and police poured into the alley

While clearing the scene, police discovered a loaded .44 caliber handgun with three cartridges

Police also found two separate bottles of alcohol, which he had seen drinking from

Finally, police video showed Barrios removing a rosary from his neck and a little later moving his hand towards the gun and the key. Several police officers were heard shouting “No” as he did so, but he quickly grabbed the keys and pulled his arm back.

A few moments later, around 5:50 p.m., he wanted to grab the gun, whereupon the police fired and fell to the ground from a bent position.

He was taken to the hospital and treated immediately by medical staff, but later died from his injuries.

When police cleared the scene, they recovered a .44 caliber handgun loaded with three rounds, a vodka bottle and a wine bottle, among other things.

The shooting marks the first time that San Francisco police have killed a person during the tenure of current District Attorney Brooke Jenkins.

Your prosecutors will decide whether to file criminal charges against Buhagiar, a 22-year SFPD veteran who shot Barrios. This wasn’t his first involvement in a fatal shooting.

He was one of seven officers who fired bullets into a vehicle in 2018 after a murder suspect fired two shots from inside the vehicle.