Warning: The video contains graphic violence.

The man fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy after he stole shotgun shells from a Napa Walmart apparently was suicidal, the Napa County sheriff’s office said as it released video of his final moments.

Brandan Reid Nylander, 24, was shot outside the Napa County Airport on April 24 after leading a deputy on a chase.

Around 2 p.m, Nylander had allegedly used a hammer to shatter a glass case containing ammunition in the Walmart. He grabbed a box of shotgun shells and threw the hammer, hitting a store employee, then walked out, the sheriff’s report said.

About 20 minutes later, Deputy Gregg Lee spotted Nylander’s car on Highway 29 and pursued it for 2½ miles.

Brandan Reid Nylander in surveillance video from the Walmart, April 24, 2020, in Napa, California. (Napa County Sheriff’s Office) 

The video segment begins as Nylander pulls up to a locked gate of the Napa County Airport. He gets out of the car holding a shotgun in his left hand and turns his back to the deputies. With his hands raised to shoulder level but still holding the gun, he walks toward the gate.

Lee fired two shots that missed, and then two that hit Nylander, in the buttocks and in the head. Nylander was pronounced dead at the scene.

The shotgun was found to be loaded.

“We have gathered evidence that suggests the suspect was suicidal,” the sheriff’s report said.

Napa County Sheriff John Robertson elaborated that Nylander had left his family a suicide note and that his “accumulated actions” before his death indicated he intended to end his life.

Nylander said nothing during the several seconds before he was shot, Robertson added.