Rialto man shot by police may have been suicidal, trying to get shot

A 22-year-old Rialto man is in stable condition after being shot by police officers in what authorities say may have been an intentional confrontation.

The confrontation was also caught on video by a bystander. The grainy night-time video was then obtained by the Riverside Press-Enterprise and posted online.

A witness told the Press-Enterprise he believed the suspect, Huston Parker, came out of his vehicle when officers arrived and may have been holding a cell phone that police mistook for a weapon.

A Rialto police spokesman says Parker made the original 911 call. He says Parker pointed a replica .38 revolver at officers and may have purposely planned the confrontation.

Parker was said to be carrying a suicide note.

He was shot several times in the upper torso, and was taken to a Colton hospital where he is listed as being in critical but stable condition.

The video, shot from across a two-lane street, shows a few parked cars — including a couple of police cruisers with red lights flashing. Four officers were on the scene, apparently responding to a 911 call of a man shooting at a parked car. Several people can be seen in the shadows, but it’s impossible to tell who might be an officer and who may be the suspect.

What can be made out are comments from bystanders who’ve gathered near the scene — and then the shooting itself.

The camera drops as more than a dozen shots ring out.

The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department is conducting an investigation of the shooting.