The man, 26-year-old Jovany Mercado-Bedolla, didn’t listen. He kept coming closer with his left fist balled around something long, shiny and silver. He was at the top of a carport and crawled down the driveway toward the officers.
The scene was captured in body camera footage released Wednesday by the Ogden Police Department. The shooting on Aug. 16 killed Mercado-Bedolla, and raised questions about why the man was there in the first place.
A person at a house party near 32nd Street and Gramercy Avenue had called dispatchers just before 9 p.m. after Mercado-Bedolla had approached partygoers and threatened them with the knife.