The family of Corey Phillips is now trying to understand why this happened.

Tessa King is the mother of Phillips's six children. She saw the body camera footage after it was released.

"Shock. And I think I was trying to prepare myself for it, but there's nothing on earth that can prepare you for that," King said.

King said that Phillips remains in the hospital, recovering from being shot.

"I can't conceptualize why they couldn't de-escalate the situation," she said.

The shooting happened in the late hours of Nov. 11 at a shopping plaza near Albrecht Avenue and High Grove Boulevard.

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