COLUMBUS, Wis. (WMTV) - The public live streaming while police are actively searching for a suspect, is something the Columbus police chief says could have compromised their investigation into a deadly shooting.

Police arrested 22-year-old Jonathan Javier Luna for shooting and killing 42-year-old Jose De Jesus Fuentes Hernandez on July 4th.

Chief Dennis Weiner says he was “disgusted” by a neighbor who live streamed the Emergency Response Team’s movements as they searched Luna’s home.

He said it puts officers responding in danger when the person they’re looking to arrest has eyes on them.

“They went to serve a search warrant in an armored vehicle that many of you may have seen,” Chief Weiner said. “It is a very dangerous thing that they were doing, trying to take this subject into custody to protect this community and to hold someone accountable.”

Authorities went to the suspect’s home to serve a search warrant. Chief Weiner says a neighbor live streamed the emergency response team’s movements as they searched.

“I understand in the day of social media, and people’s rights, and the First Amendment and things of that nature, but I am just very very disappointed in this person, when we contacted him, didn’t think it was a big deal,” Chief Weiner said. “I disagree.”

UW Madison law professor John Gross said people can exercise their first amendment and record law enforcement’s actions.

“We’ve seen a lot of police misconduct come to light because of people taking out their cell phones and recording something,” Gross said. “I mean, George Floyd’s case is a prime example of what happens when officers engage in behavior that is reprehensible.”

However, Gross says if people interfere while police try to arrest a suspect the situation can escalate.

“In some ways, this live streaming just creates the possibility that the apprehension of the suspect could be more difficult and more dangerous because now they know that the police are looking for them,” Gross said.

The suspect was not home at the time but did know police were looking for him, the chief explained.

“The information that we have and observed was that the suspect was in fact watching it,” Chief Weiner said.

He was arrested twelve hours after the shooting in Madison.

“This is Columbus, this is a small town. I grew up here,” Chief Weiner said. “We all to a degree take it personally. In smaller towns, you take your safety, you take your community for granted.”

The chief says he believes the victim and suspect had some sort of interaction before shots were fired. What exactly led up to shooting is still under investigation. Luna was booked at the Columbia County Jail on a first-degree intentional homicide charge.