Police watchdog: Yassar Yaqub shot in chest
Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) investigators, have found that Yassar Yaqub died from gunshot wounds to the chest.
Mr Yaqub was shot by a West Yorkshire Police firearms officer at around 6pm on Monday evening after two vehicles were stopped on a sliproad off junction 24 of the M62 near Huddersfield during a planned police operation.
IPCC investigators also say that so far no relevant CCTV footage of the incident has been found and none of the police officers involved was wearing body worn video cameras.
The two vehicles stopped by police on the sliproad were a white Volkswagen Scirocco and a white Audi in which Mr Yaqub was travelling. Police officers involved in the incident were travelling in four unmarked police vehicles.
A non-police issue firearm, found in the Audi, was secured in the presence of IPCC investigators at the scene and is undergoing ballistics and forensic testing. Forensic tests are also being carried out on the two vehicles stopped and an unmarked police car.
IPCC Commissioner Derrick Campbell said: “I would like to reassure the local and wider community that this will be a thorough and detailed independent investigation. We will be carefully examining all the circumstances leading up to Mr Yaqub’s death, including the planning of the police operation, and the actions of the officers involved that evening.