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Dramatic new bodycam video shows the final moments before Austin SWAT officer Jorge Pastore was gunned down by man on terror watchlist while trying to free two hostages.
In the video, SWAT officers in tactical gear can be seen storming the home where multiple people were stabbed and being held against their will.
The Austin Police Department did not release video of the moment Pastore, 38, was shot and killed as he confronted the gunman inside the home.
Police were called to the home November 11 when a desperate woman pleadedwith for help, saying she and others in the South Austin home were being stabbed.
The unidentified woman, who was sobbing and injured, managed to escape the home and met officers down the street from the house.
After officers later entered the home, they found the gunman, identified as Ahmed Mohamed Nassar, 35, holed up in a bedroom in the home.
He shot at officers, killing Pastore and injuring a second officer who is expected to make a full recovery.
Three members of the SWAT team returned fire, killing Nassar. DailyMail.com exclusively reported Nassar had been on the terror watchlist according to law enforcement sources. Additionally, the FBI had also nvestigated members of the shooter's family before Pastore's killing.
SWAT officers from the Austin Police Department can been seen entering a home in Austin, Texas where three people had been stabbed and where being held against their will
Senior Officer Jorge Pastore, 35, was shot and killed during the Nov. 11 hostage situation
SWAT members were called in after the first officers to respond to the home were shot at by the suspect
In the bodycam video, as the woman makes her escape from the home and meets with cops down the street, she can be heard begging officers: 'Please send someone there right away, I don't know what's going to happen to them'.
The victim's face was blurred in the video released by police.
Cops got the woman medical care and sped away to the home.
After identifying themselves and knocking on the door, uniformed officers can be seen kicking in the door.
Immediately, a barrage of gunfire can be heard.
That's when the decision to call in SWAT officers was made.
After SWAT entered the home, they found Nassar holed up in a bedroom in the home.
He shot at officers, killing Pastore and injuring a second officer who is expected to make a full recovery.
Three members of the SWAT team returned fire, killing Nassar.
The victim, seen above blurred on the left, escaped the home while calling for help
The first officers who responded to the home were shot at after they kicked in the door
An aerial view of the home where the hostage situation took place Nov. 11
Residents of the neighborhood where the shooting happened told CBS Austin FBI agents have been speaking to neighbors about the family involved in the hostage situation
The FBI confirms it is 'offering support' the Austin Police Department with the investigation into Pastore's death and the hostage situation that lead to the SWAT team responding to a home in South Austin
Pictured Officer Jorge Pastore and his wife Kim Balint Pastore. He is also survived by two step-children
Nassar was wearing tactical gear and was believed to have had bomb-making materials, according to a search warrant after the SWAT standoff.
'Cutting instruments, body armor, and any tactical gear to include firearms were all said to be worn or used by the suspect,' the search warrant states.
Senior Officer Jorge Pastore had been with the Austin Police Department for three years prior to his death.
He decided to become a cop after serving as a paramedic in the Parkland school shooting in Florida in 2018.
The husband and father two stepchildren was laid to rest Nov. 17, as hundreds of resident in the Texas capital turned out to pay their respects to the fallen hero.
The gunman's brother and mother were found dead in the house as well.
They were identified as Eyman Ahmed El Nemr-Nassar, 63, and Riad Mohamed Nassar, 32, by members of Austin's Islamic community.
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