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As HuffPost reports, Sterling was transported to Howard University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Sterling was on his way home from a bachelor party when he was shot.

Immediately after the fatal shooting, D.C. officials said that Sterling was driving erratically and had intentionally driven into the passenger side of a marked police car.

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The officer on the passenger side of the vehicle shot Sterling to try to stop him, officials said.

Days later, witnesses told NBC4 Washington that Sterling did not intentionally hit the police cruiser. The witnesses said that the collision was unavoidable. Witnesses also told the news station that the officer was not attempting to get out of the cruiser, but instead had rolled his window down and shot Sterling from inside the vehicle following the crash.

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“The motorcycle was trying to speed off and drive away, but he couldn’t because he was kind of caught in between the sidewalk at the curb and the police car,” witness Kandace Simms told Fox 5 DC. “So the police were trying to open the passenger-side door and he couldn’t because the motorcycle was right there, and I guess when he couldn’t open the door, he rolled down his window and shot twice.”

Trainer, who was not injured in the incident, has since been placed on administrative leave, per protocol.

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According to the Huffington Post, on Tuesday afternoon the Washington, D.C., police union issued a statement saying that it "strongly condemn[ed], in the most vehement terms, Mayor Muriel Bowser's decision to release the body-worn camera footage" before the conclusion of the investigation.

"Mayor Bowser’s decision to release the names of the officers involved in the incident is reckless to the extreme. This decision places these officers in danger of misguided retaliation fueled by a false media narrative, and is a completely unacceptable action," the statement read.