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As he led Indianapolis police on a high-speed car chase on May 6, Sean Reed pleaded "Please come get me!".
The shirtless 21-year-old live-streamed the chase on Facebook before he bailed out of his car and fled on foot near West 62nd Street and Michigan Avenue.
He titled the post, "High speed chase lol." Nearly 4,000 viewers tuned in as Reed yelled expletives at the police chasing him.
Toward the end of the livestream, Reed seemed nervous: "Somebody come get my stupid ass," he said. "Please come get me! Please come get me! Please come get me!... I'm on 62nd and Michigan."
"I just parked... I'm gone. Please come get me!" he said before bailing out of the car.
Reed took off on foot behind a locksmith store. He ran toward several churches and a closed school.
Police say he disobeyed commands to stop. Reed is hard panting. He took his phone out of his waistband and fumbled with it as he ran. A voice behind him can be heard yelling, "Stop now!"
"F*ck you!" Reed replied. Then, "Oh sh*t" as his phone dropped to the ground.
The phone was still streaming live as the sound of gunshots rang out, then silence. Then two more gunshots.
A gun that didn't belong to the cops was found near Reed's body.
Another audio picked up a conversation between two men at the scene. "Looks like it's going to be a closed casket, homie," said one of the voices.
It isn't clear if the person who made the comment was a cop. According to Fox59, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD) confirmed shots were fired by "both officers and suspect."
About 150 protesters gathered at the spot where Reed died on Wednesday to protest the police. They chanted "Murder! Murder!" and called for Indianapolis police to identify the cop who killed Reed.
"We deserve better," one community activist told the Star newspaper. "I am disgusted, horrified, tired and angry."
Reed's sister, Jazmine, went to the scene after watching her brother's livestream. She questioned why the cop shot him.
"They could have tased him, beat him up. He could be behind bars, but now he'll be in a casket the next time I see him."
Jazmine said her brother was a ladies man.
During the police chase, one smitten female viewer offered to make Reed a home-cooked meal.
"His smile, he was a ladies man for sure," Jazmine said. I got a 2-year-old, and she loved her uncle so much."
People have gathered at the execution scene of the racial murder of Sean Reed in #Indianapolis
Black people...
You are in the middle of an #AntiBlackWarPlease
Please
Please
Stop wasting your energy trying to rationalize with these race soldiers pic.twitter.com/hTUEiRSK3N— Tariq Nasheed ?? (@tariqnasheed) May 7, 2020
