By unlocking his cellphone, state investigators say they have independently corroborated that an armed Winston Smith Jr. filmed members of a U.S. Marshals Service fugitive task force surrounding his car at an Uptown Minneapolis parking ramp before they fatally shot him nearly 3½ years ago.

Investigators with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says they have obtained cellphone video capturing the moment law enforcement shot and killed Winston Boogie Smith in a Minneapolis parking ramp in June 2021.

Smith, who was wanted on a firearm warrant, was shot on the roof of a Uptown parking ramp by members of a multi-agency task force trying to arrest him.

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension announced that it has obtained an unseen video of the fatal shooting of Winston Smith by law enforcement in June of 2021. The BCA states that during its 2021 investigation of the shooting,