Rodney Wells says that his stepson, Tyree Nichols, love to watch the sunset.

Every day at lunch, if he didn't come home for lunch, he was at Shelby Farms watching the sunset.

Taking pictures. That was his passion.

Nichols also loved to skateboard, ever since he was six years old. Wells remembers joking with him about it recently.

That said, son, you got to put this skateboard down, you get into it.

No. You have a full time job now.

You go out to come to work every day and he looked at me like he was right.

Because that was his passion. That's what he liked to do.

Nichols had recently moved to Memphis, Tennessee to work at FedEx alongside his stepdad.

The 29-year-old was also a father himself to a four-year-old son.

On the evening of January 7, Tyree Nichols was stopped by police while driving.

And according to the Memphis Police Department, Nichols first tried to flee on foot.

And then there were two confrontations as officers tried to take him into custody.

Following his arrest, Nichols complained of shortness of breath and an ambulance was called to the scene.

He was transported in critical condition to a nearby hospital where he died three days later.

Video footage of the incident is due to be publicly released Friday evening.

This episode is being recorded before that happens.

But Nichols' family members and their legal team, who have already seen the video, have said the footage is horrific.

At a press conference, Attorney Antonio Ramanucci said the images show Nichols being severely beaten by the officers.

He was defenseless the entire time.

He was a human piñata for those police officers.

It was an unadulterated, unabashed, non-stop beating of this young boy for three minutes.

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