Thief with stolen gun car and motorcycle gets shot Pierce County deputy shoots Bryan Galeana Mendoza

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Pierce County, Washington – Body cam video shows a sheriff’s deputy shooting a man on the morning of May 12, 2022 outside a home in the 6200 block of 161st Street East, a residential road off of 62nd Avenue East. It ended a police pursuit that began earlier that morning when deputies located a vehicle near 160th Street East and Canyon Road that was wanted in connection to an armed carjacking, several thefts and a robbery.

The suspect, now identified as Bryan Galeana-Mendoza, 19, was behind the wheel. Deputies tried to stop his vehicle twice in that area, but each time, investigators said, he fled. The vehicle was spotted a third time traveling south on Canyon Road East, and a deputy saw the driver, relaying that he matched the description of the robbery suspect in the previous incidents. Mendoza fled a third traffic stop and drove to the 161st Street home, where he hopped onto a motorcycle and began to drive off once again.

That’s when deputy Brian Johnson, 27, shot at Galeana-Mendoza three times, striking him once. He was transported to an area hospital. The video states that the motorcycle Galeana-Mendoza was riding was reported stolen, and that a stolen handgun was also recovered at the scene.

The vehicle Galeana-Mendoza was driving, a silver 2013 BMW, was stolen at gunpoint on May 8 in Vancouver, Washington. The same vehicle was involved in the theft of truck in Lacey on May 9, an attempted theft at a Lacey high school the same day and an armed robbery in Lacey on May 10.