San Antonio police put out body camera video this week. It shows five officers shooting and killing a man outside his own home. His name was Raul Garza. He was 69.

The shooting happened on the evening of Saturday, August 1. It was on the 600 block of Aurora Avenue, on the city's West Side. The block sits near Alderete Park and Loma Park Elementary School. Police released the video on September 2, about a month later. The department calls this kind of release critical incident video.

A neighbor called 911 that evening. She said Garza was in the front yard with a gun. "He is out there waving a gun," she told the call taker, KSAT reported. KTSA reported the caller also said police had dealt with Garza before.

The video matters because three reviews are open right now. Two are inside the police department. One is at the Bexar County District Attorney's Office. No officer has been charged. No one has said what the reviews will find.

Here is what the video shows, as KSAT and KTSA describe it.

An officer walks up to Garza. Garza backs away. He tells the officer he has a knife in his back pocket. The officer points his gun at him. Garza asks the officer for a warrant. He says the officers are trespassing.

Garza crosses the street to a sidewalk. The officer follows. Then Garza crosses back. The officer puts his own gun away. He tries to talk to him. Garza puts his hands on his head. The officer asks if he wants his daughter called. Garza does not take the offer.

Then Garza reaches toward his back pocket. The officer pulls his gun back out. Garza stands with his arms out wide. He drops one arm behind his back. He keeps the other one out. That is when the officers fire.

On the video you can hear officers tell Garza to drop the gun. They say it over and over.

Five officers fired. Police named all five. Joshua Rodriguez had been on the force less than five years. John Reyes and Aldamaris Flores had less than three years each. Luis Cortes Garcia and Richard Julien had less than one year each.

Garza died at the scene. No officer was hurt. No neighbor was hurt. Police said the gun Garza had was loaded. They also said there is no proof he ever fired it.

Acting Police Chief Jesse Salame spoke the day after the shooting. He said the officers perceived a threat and fired. He also said his officers had been called to that same area many times in the month before.

A neighbor talked to KSAT the next day. She said police tried other things first. "(SAPD) even put their guns away and took out their taser, and that's when he pulled out the gun on them," she said.

That same neighbor said the death left her torn. She was glad her block was safe. But she said Garza "really needed more help."

Police have not confirmed that Garza had any mental illness.

All five officers are on what the department calls administrative duty. That means they are off the street while the case is checked. That is the normal step after a police shooting in San Antonio.

Three groups are looking at the case now. The SAPD Shooting Team is one. The department's Internal Affairs Unit is another. The Bexar County District Attorney's Office is the third. That office decides if a criminal case goes forward.

No date has been set for that call.

Garza's family has not appeared in the news coverage of the shooting so far. No lawyer for the family has come forward in that coverage either.

For now the video is the main public record of that night. The rest of the case sits with the three groups doing the reviews.