Bodycam video of San Diego officer shooting armed suspect in Balboa Park

By Caleb Lunetta
The San Diego Union-Tribune

SAN DIEGO — Body-worn camera footage released Tuesday shows a San Diego police officer exchange gunfire with a man — wounding the suspect — during a foot pursuit in Balboa Park last month.

Allen Baker, 55, allegedly pulled out a handgun and fired just before Officer Kellan Taeatafa-De La Rosa returned fire multiple times, striking Baker, on Dec. 16 near Balboa and Quince drives, investigators said.

Baker was arrested on charges of attempted murder of a peace officer, being a felon in possession of a firearm and assault on a peace officer with a semiautomatic firearm.

The Sheriff’s Office is investigating the shooting under a countywide agreement that law enforcement agencies do not investigate…