Story By: Lee Bullen, Sub-Editor: Marija Stojkoska,  Agency: Newsflash

This is the moment a US cops shoots an armed suspect dead in a hotel car park in front of his screaming stepson.

The officer-involved shooting took place in the city of Burbank in the US state of California at around 5.20am on 8th March and the Burbank Police Department released the footage on 22nd April.

According to the police, officers were called to the Quality Inn Burbank Airport hotel on reports of a boy wandering the car park on his own without shoes on.

When the police arrived, they found the seven-year-old boy sitting on a kerb and he said he was waiting for his dad, later identified as 30-year-old David William Kahler of Las Vegas, the boy’s stepfather.

The police said Kahler and the boy were involved in a car accident on the motorway in a vehicle that was allegedly stolen in Las Vegas.

The pair walked to the hotel car park where CCTV cameras recorded Kahler attempting to break into a white pick-up truck. He left the boy alone and was then filmed trying to rob another vehicle.

Kahler was then filmed driving up to the hotel in a maroon car the police said was stolen from a nearby street.

In the footage, the boy is seen running to the car to get in when a cop opens the door to confront the driver.

Kahler apparently points a weapon at the officer forcing him to fire three times as the boy screams in shock.

The suspect was taken to a nearby hospital where he died of his injuries.

The boy was unharmed in the incident and was taken into protective custody.

The police said that officers found a loaded semiautomatic handgun at the scene that was reported stolen in Las Vegas.

The officer-involved shooting remains under investigation.