SEATTLE (AP) — The King County Medical Examiner’s Office has identified a man who was in crisis and carrying a knife when Seattle police fatally shot him near the downtown waterfront last week.
44-year-old Derek Hayden died Feb. 16 of multiple gunshot wounds. A Port of Seattle police officer called city police that night saying a man with a knife had cut himself and appeared suicidal.
Body-camera footage shows Seattle police yelled at Hayden to stop while pointing a gun at him. Hayden, while carrying the knife, continued toward officers, urging them to kill him. A few seconds later, officers fired at Hayden. He died at the scene.