ST. LOUIS – Two former St. Louis Metropolitan Police officers were caught by their own department ignoring their call of duty.

It involves a supervisor’s review of bodycam video that revealed the actions of former officers Ty Warren and Austin Fraser. They’ve been stripped of their police licenses because of it.

The pair were responding to a 911 call from a man saying he was about to shoot himself in Forest Park, just after 6 p.m. on Sept. 10, 2023.

They quickly find the man, shot.

You can hear one of the officers say, “Right there—somebody right there, swear to God.”

The victim was breathing.

“He ain’t dead; he’s alive,” one of the officers said.

Instead of trying to help—or even calling it in—one of them instead said, “Let’s cruise around and come back.”

They leave him. Court records say they drove around the park and returned eight minutes later.

Other officers had arrived, unaware that Warren and Fraser had already responded. No one tells them otherwise. Keep in mind, the officers you can see on the video are not accused of any wrongdoing, and they notice another problem.

An officer asks, “Where’s the gun at?”

They don’t find the gun. The victim, meanwhile, is still alive as the other officers take action.

An officer says into his radio, “Have ETU respond and have them respond priority with privacy curtains. We’re in a very exposed area of Forest Park.”

The victim, who was 29 years old, died.

SLMPD declined an interview but wrote in a statement:

“The two individuals are no longer employed by the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. While we are unable to comment on specific personnel matters, SLMPD holds its officers to the highest of standards.”

As of this week, Ty Warren and Austin Fraser’s police licenses are now revoked. The Department of Public Safety adds that there is no process in Missouri to have a police license reinstated and that the actions against these officers have been reported to the National Decertification Index.

The department adds that they’re still trying to find that gun and are actively monitoring a national firearm database to see if it pops up in a future crime.