Man armed with a box cutter kept advancing towards Grand Rapids officers after being shot
By: The Grand Rapids Police Department has released the body camera and dashboard camera video from an officer-involved shooting that happened Saturday.
Around 8:35 a.m. on Saturday, officers with the Grand Rapids Police Department were called to Union Avenue NE and Innes Street NE for a “trouble with a person” call, GRPD Capt. Michael Maycroft told News 8 at the scene.
During Sunday’s press conference, Grand Rapids Police Chief Eric Winstrom released the video that showed the officers responding.
Officers found a 19-year-old man in an alleyway nearby. In the body camera video, the officer can be heard telling the man to keep his hands on his head after the man stated he had a boxcutter in his pocket.
The man can be seen running directly at the officer with the boxcutter in his left hand, and the officer firing multiple rounds. The man was shot twice, once in the chest and the other in the stomach, Winstrom said.
“He was not incapacitated,” Winstrom said during the news conference.
A second officer then arrived on the scene, Winstrom said. The video shows the man running into a garage attached to a house. Winstrom said two people were inside that home.
The officers can be heard telling the man to come out of the garage. The man is heard saying that he had a knife.
The video shows the man exiting the garage and running at the officers. The first officer to respond to the scene fired a Taser at the man, which was unsuccessful.
The man then continued to run at the second officer. That officer then shot the man in the arm, Winstrom said.
The man was taken to the hospital and underwent surgery. Winstrom said the man did get into a fight with hospital staff before the surgery. The man is expected to survive.