BY DARRICK IGNASIAK

High Point Enterprise

ARCHDALE -- Archdale police on Thursday released an audio recording from Sunday morning's shooting of a UNC Chapel Hill student that indicates officers attempted to tell the man to get back into his vehicle moments before police opened fire.

On Wednesday, Guilford Metro 911 released an audio recording that indicated Courtland Benjamin Smith, a 21-year-old junior and fraternity president from Houston, Texas, told a 911 dispatcher he was driving drunk, was suicidal and was armed with a 9 mm pistol. He called 911 at 4:32 a.m.

After talking with a dispatcher for about 15 minutes, Smith, who was president of a UNC fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon, was shot by Archdale police officer Jeremy Paul Flinchum during a traffic stop on Interstate 85.

According to the Archdale police audio recording, Greensboro police officers attempted to locate Smith before he was pulled over by Archdale police. Traveling at speeds exceeding 90 miles per hour, Smith rejected requests by a 911 dispatcher to pull over.

It remains unclear from either of the recordings if Smith displayed a weapon to officers.

In the police recording released Thursday, an Archdale police officer tells dispatchers that he has pulled over a vehicle with out-of-state tags at Exit 108 on Interstate 85.

"Stay in the car! Stay in the car!," officers can be heard yelling on the tape. They were parked behind Smith.

A few moments later an officer says, "Archdale: Subject is getting back into his vehicle, stand by."

"Subject down! Subject down!," an officer can be heard saying on the recording before another officer says, "Shots fired. Shots fired."

The recording indicates that officers immediately requested an ambulance. A total of 35 seconds went by from the time officers told Smith to stay in the car to when shots were fired.

The Guilford Metro 911 recording indicates that Smith told officers he had to "pull something out" of his vehicle as police told him to stay in his car.

Archdale Police Chief Darrell Gibbs said this week there was a dashboard camera that caught the incident. A Randolph County superior court judge signed a court order this week that sealed the video recording.