According to deputies, a chase occured after a driver refused to pull over just before 10:30 Sunday night in Chino.
Residents and deputies observed a blue Corvette racing through a Chino neighborhood at more than 100 mph. There was a brief pursuit before the driver crashed into a fence. A resident of the area grabbed his home video camera.
The tape is in the possession of the sheriff's department. Authorities gave the tape Wednesday to FBI agents.
The FBI is investigating possible civil rights violations in the shooting, said Thom Mrozek, spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles.
Senior Airman Elio Carrion, 21, who recently returned from Iraq, was listed in good condition at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton. He was a passenger in the car.
Relatives who saw a portion of the tape tell NBC4 that Carrion was calm, in control and cooperating with the deputy. While he was on the ground, the man appeared to tell the deputy he was in the military and was unarmed.
The driver of the Corvette, identified by authorities as 21-year-old Luis Fernando Escobedo, was arrested for investigation of felony evading and was taken to the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga.
Escobedo was released from jail Tuesday evening. He visited his friend, Carrion, in the hospital and says he feels responsible for what happened because he says he instigated the pursuit.
"Right when I walked in his room, I gave him a kiss and a hug and said 'I'm sorry,' he said, 'We're still brothers'. I feel I'm responsible for this. He had nothing to do with this. I'd like to apologize to his family for everything they're going through," said Escobedo.
"I've seen the video and right when I saw it, when I saw him scream, it took me back to when it happened," Escobedo added.
NBC4 reports that at 10:21 p.m. the sheriff's deputy radio dispatched that he was holding a suspect at gunpoint.
The dark and grainy videotape shows Carrion on the ground next to his car, talking to a silhouetted officer who is pointing a gun at him. Carrion is supporting himself on one arm and his face is brightly lit by the officer's flashlight.
There is some hard-to-hear conversation, but Carrion appears to be trying to reassure the officer, telling him he is unarmed and in the military. He repeatedly says, "I'm on your side" and adds "we mean you no harm."
At one point, a voice is heard saying several times, "Get up."
Carrion says, "I'm gonna get up." As he rises, the deputy fires at least four shots from close range, and Carrion collapses, crying out in pain.
"Shots fired! Shots fired!" someone shouts.
"He was getting out of the car with his hands up and that's when his friend started running. Since my husband was surrendering, they shot him. They shot him on the shoulder, on the chest and the leg," said the victim's wife Mariela Carrion.
Relatives do not believe Carrion would have carried a weapon, even though he is an MP with the Air Force. Carrion was home on leave from Iraq and had been out with friends Sunday night.
Relatives tell NBC4 that Carrion always carried his military badge and ID with him and he may have been shot reaching for those items in his pocket.
There was only one deputy on the scene, the man who identified himself as the videographer told The Associated Press in a telephone interview conducted in Spanish.
"Why did you shoot me if you told me to stand up?" the man quoted Carrion as saying. The man identified himself only as Jose Luis, 38, declining to provide his last name.
The deputy, whose name has not been released, was placed on paid administrative leave, which is routine procedure in officer-involved shootings.
"As with all investigations, the circumstances involved in this shooting will be reviewed," Sheriff Gary Penrod said in a statement Monday. "It would be inappropriate for me to make any additional comments until the investigation is completed."
A department spokeswoman did not immediately return a telephone message or a page left on Tuesday by The Associated Press.
A woman who answered the telephone at the Montclair home of Carrion's parents said his parents were headed to the hospital and nobody at the residence wanted to talk.
Carrion's wife told reporters that when her husband came out of surgery Monday afternoon, he said, "'They shot me for no reason.'"
She said Carrion and Escobedo were at a party at the home of Carrion's parents when they left to go to the store. Carrion was supposed to have returned Wednesday to his unit, the 2nd Security Forces Squadron, at Barksdale Air Force Base in Shreveport, La.
Air Force spokesman Lt. Frank Hartnett said Carrion worked as a security officer at the base. Carrion joined the Air Force in January 2003 and recently returned from a six-month tour in Iraq, Hartnett said.
