The Sacramento Police Department has released body camera video of officers’ shooting of a knife-wielding man who threatened to kill his roommate and end his own life on Occidental Drive in the city’s College-Glen neighborhood.
The department-narrated video summarizes the 45-minute ordeal during the morning of July 14 on the 3100 block of Occidental that began with the man’s calm-voiced call to dispatchers that he was carrying a sword and wanted to kill his roommate.
Police are investigating the shooting that sent the man to a hospital in critical condition. The man remains in critical condition two weeks after the shooting and faces charges of assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer and resisting arrest in the incident…