WASHINGTON —The D.C. Metropolitan Police Department released body camera footage of a deadly officer-involved shooting of a man who crashed into an officer’s cruiser before threatening him with a knife, WJLA reported.
The Feb. 18 incident began when a man crashed his car into a marked MPD cruiser, video shows. After the crash, the man can be seen confronting the officer, yelling at him and then reaching into the officer’s open car window while waving a knife.
The officer gave multiple commands to back away.
“I don’t want to shoot you,” the officer can be heard saying.
The man continued lunging at the officer, who then fired his weapon, striking him.
Despite being shot, the man stood back up, walked toward officers, and, according to MPD officials, stabbed himself. He then entered another MPD vehicle before running toward a bystander’s car while still holding the knife.
A second officer’s bodycam footage captures the final moments when the man attempted to carjack a woman at knifepoint. Officers then fired multiple shots, killing him at the scene.
The incident remains under investigation, according to the report.
