New Orleans police on Thursday released footage of a special ops officer shooting a man as he allegedly held a woman hostage at gunpoint in a barricaded gas station on Halloween.

Emmanuel Harris, 54, remains hospitalized and is paralyzed from the waist down after a string of violent, erratic incidents captured on body-worn cameras and the store's surveillance video.

Though police say Harris never fired his weapon, they believe he did brandish it at a motorist while pulling on their vehicle's handle in an attempted carjacking. Shortly thereafter, at around 8:30 p.m., he wielded it as he entered the gas station and convenience store at the intersection of North Galvez and Canal Street.

Video shows Harris hunkering behind the store's counter, throwing items and occasionally pointing hi

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