Sacramento police release body camera footage of officer shooting suspect armed with knife near school

The Sacramento Police Department on Sunday night released body camera footage of an officer shooting a suspect near an elementary school last month in the Northgate area.

Police said the incident began around 6:45 p.m. on March 10 when dispatch received a call that a man was on a school campus along the 3100 block of Northstead Drive, armed with a knife and would chase anyone who approached him.

The police department redacted the school’s name from the video, but the scene and report of the call were near Hazel Strauch Elementary…

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