A month after a homeless advocate sued to force Oakland police to say whom they killed on July 13, the department released body-camera footage of the fatal encounter and, for the first time, put a name to the dead man: Jose Angel Castillo, 43.

The Wednesday release closes the central gap in a shooting The Dissent has tracked since it began: OPD had spent nearly a month declining to identify the man its officers shot near a Fruitvale encampment. The video answers who — but it sharpens rather than settles the harder question that civil-rights monitors have pressed from the start, whether two officers were justified in firing on a man they had already tried to subdue with Tasers.

The Oakland Police Department on Wednesday published video from two officers' body cameras documenting the July 13 confrontation that ended with Jose Angel Castillo dead in a parking lot near 40th Avenue and International Boulevard, according to KTVU, which reviewed the footage.

The release marks a turn in a case defined until now by what the department would not say. In the hours after the shooting, Oakland police declined to provide further details "pending investigation," and the department's day-of account never named the man. The Oaklandside reported it could not independently confirm what happened because OPD encrypted its police radios last year. Wednesday's video, at last, put a face and a name to the dead.

The footage, as described by KTVU reporters Henry Lee and Andrew Fortin-Caldera, shows officers arriving at a homeless encampment and repeatedly ordering Castillo, 43, to drop what police have called two makeshift spears. Castillo refused, insisting he "was doing nothing" as he walked away down the street, the station reported. Officers followed him into a parking lot. When he turned to face them, several officers fired Tasers. Castillo still did not surrender, and the video appears to show him taking one of the weapons in hand and moving toward the officers before two of them opened fire. He fell, went unresponsive, and died at the scene. No one else was hurt.

The sequence — a Taser deployment that failed, followed seconds later by lethal rounds — is what has drawn scrutiny. Civil-rights attorney Jim Chanin, a longtime court-appointed monitor of the department, told KTVU he remains troubled. "Did it justify deadly force? There are lots of people who are threats, the question is, does it — what kind of force is justified?" he said.

The Anti Police-Terror Project, an Oakland-based coalition, went further in a statement, questioning why California Highway Patrol activity was funneling into city neighborhoods in the first place and whether deadly force could be justified when the public was never told Castillo pointed or fired a weapon at anyone. The encounter began not with OPD but with CHP: officers from the Highway Patrol's Oakland Area office were checking the encampment on state land when they reported "a suspicious individual with potential weapons" and called OPD for help shortly after 2 p.m., CHP spokesperson Sgt. Andrew Barclay told The Oaklandside in July.

At the time, OPD Chief James Beere said only that the man was "armed with dangerous weapons that were a threat to the public and to officers," declining further detail. That silence is what has fueled the pressure on the department in the weeks since — pressure The Dissent chronicled in its Aug. 7 report on the fight to make Oakland police release records and a name.

The two officers who fired remain on paid administrative leave, standard under department policy. The shooting was the third involving Oakland officers this year, and it is being reviewed by OPD, CHP, the Alameda County District Attorney's Office, and the Community Police Review Agency, the investigative arm of the civilian Police Commission.

For the advocates who spent a month demanding a name, the footage is an answer that arrives with its own set of questions attached.