Newly surfaced body-worn camera video captures the moment a man allegedly lured Bellevue police officers to the downtown transit center on December 12, 2025, with what investigators say was a bogus 911 call, then suddenly attacked them with a knife. The footage shows the suspect pulling a blade and going after two officers, leaving one with a deep facial wound and shoulder injuries before another officer opened fire and hit the attacker. The wounded officer was taken to Harborview Medical Center and has since been treated, while the suspect was hospitalized and later booked on felony assault charges. King County investigators are handling the case.
The clip, shared as part of a narrated video breakdown, shows the suspect, identified in charging papers as 38-year-old Mohamed Morray Bangura, speaking calmly with officers at first before producing a kitchen knife and charging. Detectives recovered the knife at the scene, and prosecutors describe the encounter as a deliberate ambush that began when Bangura called 911 to report an escalating domestic dispute. According to KOMO, Bangura was later released from the hospital, booked into the King County Jail and held on $5 million bail.
Prosecutors say the officer who was stabbed suffered a six-inch facial laceration, a dislocated shoulder and a broken clavicle, and was treated and released from Harborview. The other officer fired six rounds, striking the attacker three times. Court papers reviewed by The Seattle Times say the two officers were responding to the transit center at 10850 NE 6th Street when they made contact with Bangura, and investigators later determined the two 911 calls were made from the same phone number, the charges allege…