YOUNGSTOWN — Audio from the 30-minute body camera footage of an April 1 officer-involved killing reveals additional remarks by both Struthers officers involved in the shooting, which killed James J. Sheets, 35.

The officers chased Sheets from Struthers into Youngstown, where a confrontation took place at the corner of Steel Street and Salt Springs Road. The footage is from the body camera of one of the officers, who either fired most — or all — of the shots.

Several minutes after the gunfire took place and a number of Youngstown police officers arrived at the scene, one of the two Struthers officers walked up to the other Struthers officer and told an unseen third officer that Sheets “came up and (deleted) pointed right at” the first Struthers officer.

Sheets was seated in the driver’s seat of his own car when he was shot, the video shows. His car was stopped in the road. The officer who fired most was standing to the left of Sheets, and he used his fellow officer’s cruiser as a shield from Sheets.

The video shows the officer who fired most pointing his gun at Sheets and yelling, “Show me your hands” twice in about three seconds, then yelling: “Got a gun! Gun!” three seconds later, and then the officer firing approximately 10 shots. It’s unclear whether the other officer fired any shots. Struthers police Chief Tim Roddy has said only that one or both officers fired at Sheets.

Neither Roddy nor the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation has identified the two Struthers officers involved.

INTACT

Although some of the audio did not play properly when The Vindicator watched and listened to it last week, it did play properly on a different computer Sunday. All of the audio appeared to be intact.

Other conversations between the officer who fired most and other officers took place in the video.

Almost six minutes after the shooting, an officer asked the officer who did most of the shooting if he was “good.” The officer responded: “He shot and didn’t hit me.”

A short time later, the same officer asked the officer, did Sheets “hit your car?”

The officer who did most of the shooting replied, “I don’t know. I just know I heard the pop.”

One Youngstown officer stayed close to the officer who fired most. He stayed at the direction of Jason Simon, chief of the detective division for the Youngstown Police Department.

The officer who did most of the shooting walked around the area, apparently not allowed to leave. At one point, he said he thought he was going to throw up. “I haven’t decided if I’m going to throw up or not yet,” he said. He walked near some high grass but did not appear to throw up.

He said it was “cold out here” and zipped up his jacket over the body camera but the audio was still being recorded. He was coughing a lot.

The other Struthers officer also remained at the scene, saying at one point that he was suffering some ill effects from being near Sheets’ car when the air bags deployed.

YELLING

Someone asked about the vehicles, and the officer who fired most said Sheets “hit” the other Struthers officer’s vehicle, and “I hit him.” A few seconds later the officer who did most or all of the shooting said, “I lost my voice yelling at him.”

He added, “My lungs are shot.”

A little less than four minutes after the gunfire began, the officer who fired most walked toward the driver’s window of Sheets’ car while holding a shield that blocked much of the view of the body camera.

The officer said something about a gun, then said more clearly that the gun was “on the floor board” of Sheets’ car.

During the 25 minutes of the body camera video after the shooting took place, officers walked up to the officer who did most or all of the shooting many times to ask him if was OK and then say something about the incident.

An officer and the officer who did most or all of the shooting had a brief conversation about “the gun.” The other officer said, “It was right there.” And the officer who did most or all of the shooting agreed, saying “Uh-huh. It was right there.”

Another officer told the officer who did most or all of the shooting, “Don’t talk no more,” and the officer replied: “I know.”