AURORA | Police on Friday released body camera footage of an April 9 fatal shooting of 23-year-old Amare Garlington, who was experiencing a mental health crisis and stabbed a responding officer and a police dog.
On Friday, the Aurora Police Department posted an eight-minute video with audio recordings of the 911 call and police communications, video of the police’s initial response and body camera footage of the shooting from two officers. The video is narrated by Sgt. Matthew Longshore and is edited, including blurring Garlington’s face for privacy.
Around 3:15 p.m. on April 9, officers were called to an apartment complex in the 14000 block of East Stanford Circle after receiving a report that Garlington was threatening to harm himself with a knife, according to police. Police were also told that Garlington could be attempting suicide by cop, where a suicidal person is intentionally trying to get police to kill them…