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Police say that a University of South Alabama student was running around naked high on LSD moments before he was shot and killed by a campus police officer – even though video of the fatal shooting shows him with his arms outstretched and his palms open, seconds before a campus police officer fired.

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According to the Mobile County Sheriff’s Department, the two-minute security video taken by a surveillance camera outside the University of South Alabama police station shows exactly how 18-year-old Gil Collar was fatally shot early Saturday morning.

As reported by Fox News:

Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran said at a news conference that 18-year-old Gil Collar took the potent hallucinogen during a music festival Saturday before assaulting two people in vehicles and attempting to bite a woman’s arm.

Authorities said Collar then went to the campus police headquarters, where he was shot by university police officer Trevis Austin. Austin is on leave while investigators review the shooting.

Video taken by a surveillance camera showed Collar nude and covered in sweat as he pursued the retreating officer more than 50 feet outside the building, Cochran said. Collar got within 5 feet of Austin and the officer fired once, striking the student in the chest, Cochran said.

Cochran said Austin came out of police headquarters with his gun drawn after he heard Collar — a 5-foot-7, 135-pound former high school wrestler — banging on a door.

While campus police typically carry pepper spray and a baton, Cochran said Austin was armed only with a gun during the confrontation.

An attorney for Collar’s family questioned why the officer wasn’t able to use nonfatal means to subdue him.

“Obviously something caused him to act in manner that was somewhat unusual. It still does not justify shooting him down unless there is something we totally missed,” said former Lt. Gov. Jere Beasley, who’s representing the family.

In a statement issued Tuesday, University of South Alabama President Gordon Moulton said the school is cooperating with authorities and expressed condolences to Collar’s family.

Trevis Austin, an officer for four years, has been placed on leave while an investigation continues.

On the Facebook page for the Vanguard, the school’s student newspaper, Collar’s friends and classmates expressed confusion that the officer felt the need to use deadly force on the young man.

SOURCE: Fox News