Bodycam: Knife-Wielding Suspect Advances on Ohio Police Before SWAT Standoff
Mentor police say a man struck one bicyclist with an SUV, assaulted another and later advanced on officers with a knife before barricading himself inside his home for hours.
What to know
- Mentor police released bodycam footage showing a knife-wielding suspect advancing toward officers before retreating into a home and triggering a more than seven-hour SWAT standoff.
- Police said a 42-year-old suspect assaulted one bicyclist, threw the man’s bicycle into a pond and struck a second cyclist head-on with an SUV on June 3.
- Officers used a Taser when the suspect approached them with a knife outside his home, but he barricaded himself inside until SWAT officers eventually took him into custody; both bicyclists suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries.