After a software program spent more than a year trying 780,000 potential passwords, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension announced Tuesday that it was able to unlock a cell phone with video capturing events the day Winston Smith was fatally shot by two deputies.

Footage of the fatal 2021 shooting of Winston Boogie Smith by U.S. Marshals task force members in Minneapolis has been obtained by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension after years of trying to unlock a cellphone.

Footage of the fatal 2021 shooting of Winston Boogie Smith by U.S. Marshals task force members in Minneapolis has been obtained by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension after years of trying to unlock a cellphone.

By unlocking his cellphone, state investigators say they have independently corroborated that an armed Winston Smith Jr. filmed members of a U.S. Marshals Service fugitive task force surrounding his car at an Uptown Minneapolis parking ramp before they fatally shot him nearly 3½ years ago.

Investigators with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says they have obtained cellphone video capturing the moment law enforcement shot and killed Winston Boogie Smith in a Minneapolis parking ramp in June 2021.

Smith, who was wanted on a firearm warrant, was shot on the roof of a Uptown parking ramp by members of a multi-agency task force trying to arrest him.

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension announced that it has obtained an unseen video of the fatal shooting of Winston Smith by law enforcement in June of 2021. The BCA states that during its 2021 investigation of the shooting,

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has unlocked a phone that captured video of the law enforcement shooting of Winston Smith Jr. in June 2021.