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Posted: 2016-09-23T17:22:03Z | Updated: 2016-09-24T01:02:04Z

A video released to NBC News shows the moment when police in Charlotte, North Carolina, shot Keith Scott.

In the video, which lasts two minutes and 12 seconds, Scotts wife pleads with an officer not to fire his weapon. At the same time, the officer is pointing a gun in Scotts direction, screaming at him to drop the gun.

Dont shoot him, he has no weapon, Rakeyia Scott says several times. She tells the officers that her husband has a TBI, or a traumatic brain injury, and then assures them, Hes not gonna do anything, he just took his medicine.

She then yells toward Scott, Keith, dont you do it! Its unclear whether she is telling him not to get out of the vehicle hes in.

Police fire their weapons, and Scott can be seen lying on the ground.

Did you shoot him? Rakeyia Scott asks officers. He better live. He didnt do nothing to them.

Keith Scott was waiting in his truck for his young son to come home from school, his lawyer told NBC News Gabe Gutierrez, but his wife had gone inside their apartment to grab a cell phone charger. She was gone for about three minutes and began recording once she emerged from the apartment.