The 22-year-old black man fatally shot by Sacramento police in his own backyard Sunday night was carrying a cellphone, not a "tool bar," when confronted by officers, the department clarified late Monday. 
 
 Stephon Clark was killed in the backyard of the south Sacramento home he shared with his grandmother, grandfather and some siblings, his 25-year-old brother Stevante Clark said Monday. The police department said officers were responding to a call of a person breaking car windows nearby. 
 
 Police said they believed Clark was armed with a gun, though no firearm was found at the scene. Police said instead Clark had a "object" that he "extended in front of him" while advancing towards two officers. 
 
 Police were unable to immediately give details about the tool bar Monday, and did not identify the item in Clark's hand when he was shot as different from the tool bar until late Monday night. The department said it believed initial information released about the incident was clear that the object Clark was holding when shot was not the tool bar. 
 
 
 
 
 
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 SHARE COPY LINK WARNING: Graphic content. The Sacramento Police Department has released body cam footage of the shooting of Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man, in his grandparents' backyard. This footage is from camera 1. The shooting occurs near the 7:40 mark. 
 
 Police said Monday night they had concluded their on-scene investigation and the only item found near Clark's body was a cellphone. 
 
 Police said two items that could be the "tool bar" that deputies in the helicopter saw were recovered from near the broken sliding glass door in the neighbor's yard: a cinder block and a piece of aluminum similar to what might be used for a gutter. 
 
 On Monday, police said Clark used the tool bar to shatter a sliding glass door one house away from where he was shot. Police also said in a release that they believe Clark broke the windows of at least three nearby vehicles. 
 
 At 9:18 p.m. Sunday night, officers responded to a call that a thin, 6-foot-1 black man wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and dark pants was hiding in a residential backyard after breaking car windows, according to a department media release. 
 
 Sacramento County Sheriff's deputies circling the area in a helicopter spotted a man in a nearby backyard at about 9:25 p.m. and told police on the ground that he had just shattered a window with a tool bar then run to the front of that house and looked inside a car. The deputies in the helicopter began directing the officers on the ground to his location. 
 
 Officers entered the front yard of Clark's residence in the 7500 block of 29th Street and spotted him along the side of the house. Department spokesman Vance Chandler said the man tracked by the helicopter was the same person confronted by officers, who said they ordered him to stop and show his hands. That man was later identified as Clark. 
 
 Police said Clark instead fled from the officers toward the back of the property, where police said he turned and advanced toward the officers with an object in his hands. 
 
 "Fearing for their safety," the officers fired multiple rounds at Clark at 9:26 p.m., hitting him several times, the department said. 
 
 The two officers involved in the shooting then held their position for about five minutes until additional officers arrived before approaching the victim. Clark was pronounced dead at the scene. 
 
 Sequita Thompson, Clark's grandmother, said she was awake and sitting in the home's dining room when she heard four gunshots. 
 
 
 
 
 
 “The only thing that I heard was pow, pow, pow, pow, and I got to the ground," she said. 
 
 Thompson said neither she nor her husband heard police issuing commands prior to the shots being fired. 
 
 Thompson dropped to the floor and crawled to the spot where her 7-year-old granddaughter slept on the a couch in an adjacent den, telling her to get on the ground as well, she said. 
 
 Thompson then made her way to her husband, who uses a wheelchair to move around. 
 
 Thompson said it was normal for Clark and others to enter the home through the backyard because the front doorbell doesn't work and she and her husband, who is in a wheelchair, have poor mobility. People would knock on the back window and ask her to use an automatic opener to raise the garage door to admit them, she said. 
 
 Thompson said her husband called 911 to report the shots. 
 
 Police interviewed Thompson for several hours about what she had heard but did not tell her about Clark, she said. She eventually decided to look out a window and saw her grandson's body in her backyard, she said. 
 
 “I opened that curtain and he was dead," she said. "I started screaming.” 
 
 Both officers involved with the shooting were placed on paid administrative leave. One has been an SPD officer for four years, the other for two. Each had four years experience with other law enforcement agencies before joining SPD. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Body-camera footage of the shooting will be released within 30 days, per a city policy approved in November 2016. 
 
 Chandler said that video would include footage shot by Sacramento County Sheriff's deputies in the helicopter. The Sheriff's Department does not usually release video, but Chandler said the departments wanted to work "collaboratively." 
 
 The Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office, city attorney’s office and the city Office of Public Safety Accountability will investigate the shooting, as will SPD homicide detectives, internal affairs and Crime Scene Investigation units, he said. 
 
 Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg said he supported the investigation and Sacramento Police Chief Daniel Hahn's "intent to expediate the release of all relevant video." 
 
 "I am always sorry when someone loses their young life," Steinberg said. "I am also grateful that the officers were unharmed." 
 
 A Sacramento High School alumnus with a fondness for sneakers, football and video games, Clark left behind two young sons, Cairo and Aiden, his family said. 
 
 Though his birth certificate read "Stephen," Clark altered the spelling of his name to differentiate it from that of his father, Stevante said. 
 
 Many friends also referred to him as "Zoe," short for Alonzo, his middle name. 
 
 Monday night, about 120 community activists led by Black Lives Matter gathered in front of the Meadowview Light Rail Station off of Meadowview Road for a vigil and protest. The crowd included family members and community leaders. 
 
 Sacramento Pastor Les Simmons, the former president of a police oversight commission who quit after the fatal shooting of a mentally ill black man in 2016, led a group of family members through prayer at the station’s parking lot. 
 
 “I think right now is a moment for our community,” he said afterward. “A moment to show real transparency.” 
 
 Tuesday afternoon, family, friends and activists planned to gather on the steps of the state capitol at 1 p.m. 
 
 SHARE COPY LINK Sacramento police are investigating an officer-related shooting on March 19, 2018, in South Sacramento in the 7500 block of 29th Avenue. Sgt. Vance Chandler explains at the scene. 
 
 
 
 
 
 A GoFundMe page to pay for Clark's funeral expenses was established Monday afternoon. Stevante Clark said the family wanted enough money to bury his younger brother next to another brother killed a few years ago, also by gun violence. 
 
 "He would not want for us to be sad but to come together," said the elder Clark. "He was a good person. He always had jokes for everybody." 
 
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 Sacramento police officers shot and killed 22-year-old Stephon Clark, a father of two who was unarmed, in the backyard of his grandparents' home on Sunday night. 
 
 "The only thing that I heard was pow, pow, pow, pow, and I got to the ground," Sequita Thompson, Clark's grandmother, told The Sacramento Bee. "I opened that curtain and he was dead." 
 
 A police department statement says: "Prior to the shooting, the involved officers saw the suspect facing them, advance forward with his arms extended, and holding an object in his hands. At the time of the shooting, the officers believed the suspect was pointing a firearm at them. After an exhaustive search, scene investigators did not locate any firearms. The only item found near the suspect was a cell phone." 
 
 Clark was pronounced dead on the scene by personnel from the fire department. 
 
 On Wednesday, the Sacramento Police Department released video and audio of the incident: body camera footage from the two officers involved in the shooting; video from the police helicopter that directed the officers to Clark; audio of the initial 911 call reporting a man in a hoodie breaking car windows; and audio from the police dispatch. 
 
 Sacramento Police Department YouTube 
 
 Taken together, the audio and video paints a portrait of an incident that moved heartbreakingly fast and then achingly slowly. 
 
 The recordings begin with a man calling 911 to report a man in a hoodie and dark pants breaking car windows. The officer in the helicopter spots Clark running and walking through backyards, and tells officers on the ground that the suspect has just used a "toolbar" to break the window of a residence. 
 
 With direction from the helicopter officer, the officers on the ground follow and confront Clark. 
 
 In a dark backyard lit only by what appear to be gun-mounted flashlights, the officers' body camera footage shows what happened next. 
 
 Sacramento Police Department YouTube 
 
 Sacramento Police Department YouTube 
 
 "Show me your hands — gun!" the first officer yells. A few short seconds later he yells, "Show me your hands! Gun! Gun! Gun!" 
 
 The second officer begins firing multiple shots. Then the first officer begins firing, too — they fire about 20 shots in all. 
 
 Hidden by tall grass and the darkness, Clark's body isn't visible, but there are no signs of movement. 
 
 The first officer yells again, "Show me your hands!" and the other adds, "Let's see your hands." 
 
 "He's down, no movement," the second officer tells the dispatch. "We're going to need additional units." 
 
 "You all right, you hit?" says one officer. "Yeah, I'm good," the other officer replies. 
 
 The first officer reloads his weapon. 
 
 "He's still down, he's not moving," the officer says. "We can't see the gun." 
 
 Backup units arrive on the scene. 
 
 "He came up, and he kind of approached us, hands out, and then fell down," the first officer tells one of the new arrivals. 
 
 The two officers who fired their weapons continue to hang back, holding position, occasionally yelling that they need to see Clark's hands. 
 
 The second officer tells someone that the suspect had "something in his hands, looked like a gun from our perspective." 
 
 For more than five minutes, the two officers are seen standing behind the corner of the house with their weapons drawn. 
 
 When they finally approach the man they shot, one of the officers handcuffs Clark's lifeless body. 
 
 "We're going to need CPR stuff," he says. The officers put on gloves and talk about going to get a rescue mask. 
 
 Then officer one says "Hey, mute?" and the video's sound clicks off. The last two minutes of the video are silent. 
 
 The two officers involved in the shooting have been placed on paid administrative leave. The officers have been with the department for two and four years, respectively; both had four years' prior law enforcement experience with other agencies before joining the Sacramento force. 
 
 The Bee reports that before police released the videos to the public, they first showed them to Clark's family: 
 
 "Allowing family to see such videos before they are released to the public is part of a city policy adopted in late 2016 by the city of Sacramento after the fatal shooting by police of Joseph Mann, a mentally ill black man. Mann's shooting led to major reforms in the department, including a requirement that all patrol officers wear body cameras. "The reforms also require police to release videos in 'critical incidents' such as officer-involved shootings and deaths in custody within 30 days of the event. Sacramento police Chief Daniel Hahn, the city's first African American chief, has been releasing videos more quickly than the requirement and for a broader range of events than covered by the new law since taking over the department last summer." 
 
 The videos of the last minutes of Clark's life have sparked questions in Sacramento and online, about how the police handled the situation — and how they might have thought Clark had a gun. 
 
 "The object ultimately determined to be what police saw in Clark's hand was a cellphone his girlfriend and mother of his two children, Salena Manni, had loaned him," the Bee reports. "It was in a rose gold-colored case with a black clip on the back for holding items like credit cards, she said." 
 
 There is also a debate over what possible repercussions the two police officers might face. 
 
 Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg released a statement on Wednesday evening. 
 
 "I viewed the videos carefully," he said. "Based on the videos alone, I cannot second guess the split-second decisions of our officers and I'm not going to do that." 
 
 "The questions raised by the community and councilmembers are appropriate and must be answered during the investigation," he continued. "For instance, what are the protocols regarding use of force and for rendering emergency aid during officer involved shootings?" 
 
 Sacramento police say additional video and audio will be released soon. 
 
 "This is an unfortunate moment," community activist Berry Accius told the Bee. "This moment is probably going to set us back. ... We got transparency. Now we need accountability. We can't get that young man back." ||||| It was their thing: S.A.C. It stood for Sacramento. It stood for Stephon Alonzo Clark. And it also stood for Clark's family: Salena, Aiden, and Ciaro. 
 
 "We met in Sacramento," said Salena Manni, Clark's girlfriend. "So it has special meaning to us." 
 
 Clark was shot and killed Sunday night by two Sacramento Police officers. Police were responding to 911 calls of robbery reports in the area. 
 
 Clark's family said he was just trying to get into his grandmother's home, where he lived. 
 
 A spokesperson with Sacramento Police said Tuesday night the officers at the scene fired at Clark 20 times. He could not comment on how many times Clark was hit. 
 
 "He's not coming home to me no more," Manni said through tears. "He's really gone." 
 
 Manni has been with the man she lovingly knew as 'Zoe' for five years. She is heartbroken, especially for their two children, Aiden and Cairo. 
 
 "I have to wake up every morning to my kids asking me, 'Where's Daddy? Let's go get Daddy,'" Manni said. "'Daddy's always in our hearts forever. Don't forget that.' Even today, my son he doesn't understand hearts and tummies. He goes 'Daddy's with me. He's in my tummy.'" 
 
 Sacramento police initially said the two officers involved "feared for their safety," thinking Clark was armed. They later said the object the officers was a 'tool bar.' 
 
 The night after the shooting, police said they only found Clark's cellphone at the scene. 
 
 Sacramento man fatally shot by police Stephen Clark and his sister. 01 / 05 Stephen Clark and his sister. 01 / 05 
 
 "I know for a fact he was so scared, scared for his life," said Manni. "He had too much to lose... he would never want to leave his kids." 
 
 Manni said Clark was the love of her life, but she didn't realize how much of an impact he had on other people. 
 
 "He has a lot of love out there," said Manni. "And I'm grateful for it." 
 
 Friends have started a memorial fund for Clark's family. 
 
 Follow the conversation with Frances Wang on Facebook. 
 
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– Stephon Clark was killed by California police in his own backyard when officers fired 20 rounds at him, striking him multiple times, CBS Sacramento reports. According to the Sacramento Bee, police in Sacramento were responding Sunday night to reports of a man breaking car windows when they found Clark in his backyard. Police say the 22-year-old man at first fled before approaching officers while holding an "object" that he "extended in front of him." Police say the officers thought it was a gun and, fearing for their safety, opened fire on Clark. Police initially said the object turned out to be a "tool bar" of some kind only to later revise that: Clark was apparently holding only a cellphone. No gun was found at the scene. “I know there could have been another way. He didn’t have to die,” Clark's older brother tells CBS. "He didn't deserve it." Clark's grandmother, who lives at the home, says neither she nor her husband heard officers give Clark any orders before opening fire. Police say Clark used an object, possibly a cinder block or piece of aluminum, to break a neighbor's glass door and the windows of at least three cars in the area before he was killed. Police say they will release body camera and helicopter footage of the shooting within a week. Salena Manni, Clark's girlfriend of five years and mother of his two young children, tells KXTV he wouldn't have threatened officers. "He had too much to lose," she says. "He would never want to leave his kids."