Howie Lake II is a police officer for the Baton Rouge Police Department. Lake is a three year veteran of the department. He is a member of the uniform patrol division.

Lake attended Parkview Baptist High School, graduating in 2006. He then played college football, as an offensive lineman, at Louisiana College.

On July 5, 2016 Alton Sterling, a 37-year old man who sold CDs, was shot and killed by Baton Rouge Police Department officers Tuesday morning outside a convenience store on North Foster Drive after “some type of altercation” with officers Blane Salamoni and Howie Lake II, officials said.

Around 12:35 a.m., Baton Rouge Police responded to the Triple S Food Mart at 2112 N. Foster Drive after an anonymous caller indicated that a man in a red shirt who was selling CDs outside the store pointed a gun at someone, telling them to leave the property, Baton Rouge Police Department spokesman Cpl.

L’Jean McKneely said.

East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner William “Beau” Clark said the initial results of an autopsy performed Tuesday show Sterling died due to a homicide and suffered multiple — meaning more than two — gunshot wounds to the chest and back.

Baton Rouge Police did not provide much information about what escalated the incident between the officers and Sterling or what prompted an officer to fire his weapon.

A witness, however, described police as “aggressive” and said Sterling was armed but was not holding his gun or touching his pockets during the incident.

Police later retrieved a gun from the man’s pocket, said the witness, shop owner Abdullah Muflahi.

In addition to the witness video, police said they have surveillance video from the convenience store and dash camera video from police vehicles.