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The body cam footage showed Officer Luckey attempting to pull Mr. Wright from the car as Ms. Potter drew a weapon and aimed it at Mr. Wright. She shouted, “I’ll Tase you!” and then “Taser! Taser! Taser!” before firing a bullet into Mr. Wright’s chest.

After Ms. Potter fired the gun, the video shows, she cursed and said, “I just shot him.” Officer Luckey and a sergeant who had arrived at the scene appeared stunned. After the shot was fired, Mr. Wright’s car moved down the street, coming to a stop when it struck another car.

In the criminal complaint filed against Ms. Potter, a special agent with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension described additional body camera footage that has not been released publicly. The agent, Charles Phill, wrote that Ms. Potter, moments after the shooting, had used an expletive, lamenting that she had “grabbed the wrong gun” and, a minute later, had said, “I’m going to go to prison.”

Mr. Wright was pronounced dead at the scene at 2:18 p.m., 16 minutes after he was shot.

What are the charges and possible sentences?

Prosecutors in the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office have filed two felony charges against Ms. Potter: first-degree manslaughter and second-degree manslaughter.

To convict Ms. Potter of first-degree manslaughter, jurors would need to find that Ms. Potter had caused Mr. Wright’s death while recklessly handling her gun with “such force and violence” that it was “reasonably foreseeable” that someone would be killed or suffer great bodily harm.

To convict her of the lesser charge of second-degree manslaughter, jurors would need to find that Ms. Potter had caused Mr. Wright’s death through negligence, had created “an unreasonable risk” and had consciously taken the chance of killing someone or inflicting great bodily harm.