On the morning of May 4, a routine call about property damage in Stockton escalated into a fatal police encounter that would later be scrutinized through body-worn camera footage. The incident began when officers responded to a report on the 2000 block of Nevada Street by Anola Lane, where a man had smashed the front door of an occupied home with an ax. By the time police arrived, 25-year-old Moises Andrade had already fled the scene, leaving behind photos showing substantial damage to the door.
What came next unfolded quickly. While investigating, officers learned that Andrade might have been planning to target another home. They tracked him down to a residence along Deep Cliff Way and Spring Hill Drive, between Highway 4 and Houston Avenue, arriving around 7:37 a.m. As they approached the front door, the garage door partially opened, and officers spotted Andrade inside. Video footage shows an officer communicating with him in Spanish, asking him to leave the garage. Andrade’s response was telling:“What did I do? I didn’t do anything.”
The situation deteriorated when Andrade retrieved an ax that was tied to his bicycle. One officer immediately drew his service weapon while another deployed a Taser. Officers commanded Andrade to drop the ax and attempted de-escalation tactics, but the interaction took a critical turn. Body-camera footage captured Andrade closing the garage door, then reopening it while telling the officer not to point his gun. After those failed attempts to de-escalate, Andrade raised the ax in what police described as a threatening manner. Officer Gabriel Sixtos, who has been with the Stockton Police Department since 2017 and is assigned to the Field Operations Division, fired four times.
Andrade was transported to a hospital by CenCal and EMS Authority, along with the Stockton Fire Department, but he later died from his injuries. No officers were hurt. Both officers involved were placed on paid administrative leave and had their body-worn cameras running throughout the encounter.
The Stockton Police Department’s release of the nine-minute narrated video—which includes 911 call audio, photos of the damage, and body-camera footage—adds a layer of transparency to what became a controversial moment in the community. The video documents not just the fatal shooting, but the entire narrative: the initial attack on a home, the investigation that connected the dots, and the final moments in that garage where de-escalation failed and force became the outcome.
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