After a brief exchange and Castile informing the officer, calmly, that he has a gun on him, Yanez tells him not to pull out the gun. When reaching for his ID as Yanez requested, Castile is shot 7 times by the officer when he tries to put his hands back in the air, also as the officer requested.

Yanez was then charged, in November of that same year with three felonies: One count of second-degree manslaughter and two counts of dangerous discharge of his firearm. That manslaughter part is important because most defendants, if they didn't have a badge, likely would have gotten the full murder charge, but Yanez was excepted from this.

Finally, on June 16th, 2017, Yanez was acquitted and also fired by the city of St. Anthony

Yanez's justification for the shooting was fear and, incredibly, second-hand smoke inhalation,

"I thought, I was gonna die, and I thought if he's, if he has the, the guts and the audacity to smoke marijuana in front of the five year old girl and risk her lungs and risk her life by giving her secondhand smoke and the front seat passenger doing the same thing, then what, what care does he give about me?"