ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New video is showing what Albuquerque Police saw before they shot and killed a suspect accused of shooting an officer responding to a call at an apartment complex.

Officers responded Friday, Jan. 24, to the Tesota Morningside apartment complex on Montgomery Boulevard, east of Carlisle Boulevard. According to APD Chief Harold Medina, they received a call about a man knocking on the wrong door, looking for a woman.

When officers responded, they said he was having a mental health crisis.

“They offered to get them help, they counseled the individual. They had an extensive interaction with this individual, trying to be supportive and get them the help that they needed but the individual refused any type of help. Without much warning, the individual was able to retrieve a firearm and fired the shot that struck the sergeant,” Chief Medina said.

Officers returned fire and killed the suspect.

KOB 4 spoke with a neighbor who said the suspect had approached him just minutes before the shootout with police. That neighbor – who did not want to be identified – was still shaken up by what took place overnight.

“I get home at 11, there is this guy walking around outside acting weird,” the neighbor said.

He says he didn’t recognize the man when he got home late Thursday night. 

“He comes downstairs from the top floor. He doesn’t live here, you know? We know our neighbors,” the neighbor said.

At about 1:30 a.m. he said he and his girlfriend left their apartment to go get food and the stranger was still outside. 

“This guy walks up to our car, and he is like, ‘Have you seen this girl?’ He won’t show us a picture of her. Just acting real weird.”

They left, but on their way back home they saw around 10 cops fly by. They were responding to the shooting.

Paramedics responded and took the sergeant to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the thigh. They also took a resident to the hospital with a wound to their arm. They are expected to be okay.