Posted March 30, 2017 9:00 am by Comments

By Tactical-Life

Baltimore police have released partial body cam footage showing the dramatic moments before one of its officers was forced to shoot and kill a man holding two children at knifepoint last Friday morning.

Officers responded to a call of an armed man with a knife inside a house on North Fulton Avenue at around 6:45 a.m. They were told by the family there that 39-year-old Reno Owens Jr. — a homeless relative who had been allowed to stay at the house overnight — was on drugs and behaving erratically.

Owens had barricaded himself in a bedroom with two children, a one-year-old boy and four-year-old girl. He was holding what has been described as a large butcher knife.

Police ordered Owens to drop the knife and let the children go, but he ignored them. Instead, he said things like “Go get the father now! Your daughter is gone, cuz” and “You had to rock the cradle, cuz. Ain’t gonna be no tomorrow.” At one point, he also chillingly sang “Rock a Bye Baby” to the children, who were screaming and crying.

Eventually, police decided to act.

“Out of fear for the absolute safety …Read the Rest

Source:: Tactical Life

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