A grainy surveillance video (below) from a nearby store shows Jonathan Ayers walking into the convenience store. Then the video switches to outside as two drug task-force agents emerge from a black SUV before Ayers' small car backs up. The agents fire into the passenger side of Ayers' car, and then it takes off with the agents running behind it.

It appears from the video that the police frightened Ayers, by rushing the SUV up to his car and jumping out without putting the SUV into park, and when they come up on him with guns out (and are in plain clothes) he attempts to drive away.