PINEVILLE, N.C. — Pineville police identified the man killed in a deadly officer-involved shooting over the weekend at a bar.
The Pineville Police Department said it happened just before 4 p.m. Saturday at Tavern 51 when officers received a 911 call about a man with a gun who was threatening other customers at the bar.
Channel 9 has surveillance video that shows what happened before police arrived.
Footage shows a man in a cream-colored sweater, holding what appears to be a gun in his right hand.
Pineville police later provided the 911 calls to Channel 9.
A customer at the bar told 911 dispatch that he wouldn’t let the suspect buy him a drink and that was when he pulled a 9 mm handgun out on him. The bar patron said the suspect had three guns.
In the video, you can see him walk toward a couple of women at the end of the bar. An employee told Channel 9 that one of those women told the man to calm down. Then, the man put the gun in his waistband.
Pineville police said they confronted Colton Maxwell Floren, 24, in the parking lot, giving more than a dozen commands, but he continued approaching the officers.
Police said Floren made a sudden move and that’s when one of the officers fired their gun. An officer performed first aid, but he died at the hospital.
In the customer’s 911 call, you can hear the police give commands, and within seconds at least two shots were fired.
“It’s just shocking, I’m actually scared. As far as the officer and everybody involved, I hope their ok. It’s just a sad thing,” David Brown, a customer who witnessed the shooting, told Channel 9.
Pineville police said the officers who were involved are now on administrative assignment.
This is the third officer-involved shooting in three weeks in the Charlotte area.
On Dec. 27, an off duty officer with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department shot and killed a man outside Coyote Joe’s Nightclub in west Charlotte. Chief Johnny Jennings said officers believed the man had a gun and was trying to harm himself.
Then, last weekend a Kannapolis police officer shot and killed Edgar Welch during a traffic stop on North Cannon Boulevard. Police stopped Welch for outstanding warrants, they said they shot him because he had a gun and wouldn’t put it down.
In 2016, Welch made national headlines when he took a gun into a pizza shop in Washington, D.C., in search of a child sex ring. He believed an online rumor that Democrats were hiding child sex slaves there.
The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is investigating all three of these officer-involved shootings. We’ll bring you any new updates as we get them.
Check back with wsoctv.com for updates.
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