By Police1 Staff
BRATENAHL, Ohio — Body camera video has been released of a standoff between Ohio police and a knife-wielding murder suspect.
Fox 8 reports police were called to the scene of a man armed with a knife on August 28.
43-year-old Jeffrey Conrad led officers on a foot pursuit that ended in a standoff in the waters of Lake Erie.
According to WKYC, police ordered Conrad to drop the hunting knife multiple times to no avail. Police believe Conrad was seeking ‘suicide by cop’ at the time of the standoff.
Conrad told officers to “do what you have to do,” during the incident.
Bratenahl Police Officer Robert Pitts was eventually able to get close enough to TASER Conrad and subdue him.
Officers did not know Conrad was a suspect in the fatal stabbing of his ex-wife, 40-year-old Amanda Russell, at the time of the standoff.
According to ABC 5, police deployed the TASER five times to get Conrad fully under control.
“He was trying to play suicide by cop,” Officer Pitts told ABC 5. “I chose that I wasn’t going to provide him that opportunity.”