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A Routine Call Goes Horribly Wrong And A Police Video Gets A Life Of Its Own

In December 2014, police officer Tyler Stewart responded to a routine call in Flagstaff, Ariz. College student Anna Caldron had called the police, saying her boyfriend, Robert Smith, had damaged her apartment after an argument.

Officer Stewart goes to investigate, and a routine call turns deadly. Smith shoots Stewart and himself. It is the first time a police officer's death was captured on his own body cam.

On this episode of Embedded, we travel to Flagstaff for the stories behind the shooting, and to find out what the video from that day means to police officers and to the people related to Stewart and Smith.

For information on suicide risk and prevention, you can visit the website for the American Foundation For Suicide Prevention and NPR's previous reporting on suicide prevention.

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Kelly McEvers is a two-time Peabody Award-winning journalist and former host of NPR's flagship newsmagazine, All Things Considered. She spent much of her career as an international correspondent, reporting from Asia, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. She is the creator and host of the acclaimed Embedded podcast, a documentary show that goes to hard places to make sense of the news. She began her career as a newspaper reporter in Chicago.