Two Seattle police officers were on routine paid administrative leave Wednesday after a man who was allegedly lunging at and chasing passersby with a knife or knives was fatally shot in the Lower Queen Anne neighborhood yesterday. Late Wednesday evening, the department released the body cam video footage of the fatal encounter with the suspect, who still has not been publicly identified. He was pronounced dead at the scene after trying to run from several police officers and a police K9. The King County Sheriff's Office is independently investigating the shooting, but it is still unknown why the man was threatening people in the busy neighborhood. "We're very early in the investigation," Seattle Police Assistant Chief Deanna Nolette said Wednesday. Officers responded on Tuesday to multiple calls to 911 around 3:30 p.m. about the unidentified man brandishing knives and threatening people in the area, police have said. Nolette said there was at least one report of the suspect chasing someone in the area before officers arrived. The arriving police officers confronted the suspect and may have used a stun gun to try and subdue him, but it appears it did not stop the suspect. Two officers then fired, striking the suspect, who died while paramedics were trying to revive him, according to police. The graphic body cam video shows police ordering the man to stop, but he threw his jacket at them and ran. The video appears to show him then turning around to face the officers with a sharp object before they opened fire. Roberto Castro said he saw police open fire just a few feet away from his construction site, where he was working at the time. "The guy was trying to run and 'boom, boom,' they started shooting," Castro said. Nolette said it appears the people who were being threatened were random. "These were just people in the area," Nolette said. A cell phone video from a witness shows the man running, briefly turning around, and then swinging at what Castro says was a K-9. "I saw the dog biting him on his leg," Castro said. "He was trying to run and they started shooting." Independent investigators will rely on calls to 911 calls and the officers' body camera footage to determine if the officers were justified in their response. The department said it's their policy to release all of that information within 72 hours of an officer-involved shooting. No one else was hurt during the incident, according to Nolette.
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