drop the knife no stop EMS okay at approximately 4 54 a.m Austin 911 Communications received a call describing a female banging on an apartment door stating a man was chasing her in the 3600 block of Menchaca Road and requesting police the caller described a white female wearing blue jean shorts and a turquoise top the caller said the female was sitting outside his door at 4 55 am APD officers were dispatched to the call location and at approximately 5 AM they arrived on the scene and began speaking with the female who matched the description in the 9-1-1 call the female said A man was chasing her through the apartment complex and he had a knife the female described the male subject James Allen woodrome as a six foot three inches tall 60-year-old man with gray hair who was last seen wearing navy blue or black basketball shorts with a dark shirt at approximately 503 am officers communicated over the police radio the man was last observed running west through the apartment complex at approximately 506 am Mr Woodrum approached the officers in the parking lot of the apartment complex while they were speaking to the female the male subject walked toward the officer while holding a knife in his hands officers began to give commands to Mr Woodrum to drop the knife officers attempted to de-escalate the situation by continuously giving commands to Mr Woodrow he did not comply with the commands and repeatedly yelled at the officers to shoot and kill him he was very recently criminally charged for a separate offense and was set to serve three years in prison for the possession of cannabis with a quantity of less than two thousand pounds and greater than 50 pounds which may have contributed to his agitated and crazed actions that night one officer deployed a department-issued taser but the taser deployment was ineffective Mr Woodrow moved forward in the direction of the officers officers continued commands to drop the knife and walk backward creating more distance between them officers also requested the female stay back another officer deployed a department issued taser a second time and it did not affect the suspect Mr Woodrum continued to walk toward them with the knife in his hand one officer then discharged his department-approved firearm toward Mr Woodrow at which point he fell to the ground a knife was located on the ground next to the suspect officers then moved the knife away from him once the scene was made safe by removing the knife the officers immediately performed life-saving measures and requested medical assistance at the scene Mr Woodrum succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced deceased on the scene at 5 19 am no other civilians or officers sustained physical injuries per APD protocol all three officers have been placed on administrative leave this incident was captured on three officers body worn cameras and a recorded 9-1-1 call you are about to hear and see the following is all available body worn camera and Associated media involving this incident viewer discretion is advised Austin n11 do you need police Fire EMS or mental health services um probably police okay what location um Todd South Lamar you said sophomore tides of South Lamar okay do you know the address there um what's going on there I can look it up 3622 manchac a so yeah but it's there's there's like a second address so it's like it's um yes but it's the entrance near the um the flashing light crosswalk on there there's a lady saying that guy's like chasing her and she's sitting at the front of my apartment door she was banging on the other apartments I hurt her so um do you see any man around I don't see cities around the corner I don't know if she's highly drugs or if there really is a guy there I don't know I'm not gonna go look which apartment number are you near or is she near right now um well I'm Goulding I'm getting really super exploration is but um yeah I don't know you come down man suck right you come down manchac and it's the crosswalk and that's the first light you're gonna take the left and two Department conflicts is she whitelock Or Hispanic 40. and what is she wearing uh blue jean shorts and a like the top like a a wire feeder kind of top okay what color um I think it's turquoise see her out there yeah she's there I just checked she's sitting at the front of my door yeah okay do you see any weapons on her anything like that no no she looked injured to you no okay can I get your name yes okay I'll get someone out there if you see anything change you see a man up here just call back and let us know okay okay thank you all right thanks bye foreign how are you okay you doing all right can you put your hands down everyone that we have two parts here that is my he chased me wherever sorry I don't know what these are okay so where are you from you know this lady sir she's just banging off your door just okay okay that's a guy did he said a guy chase her okay and looked out the window and I saw a guy oh man so what kind of work do you do foreign he broke him through the back I ran for that pour it out first two buildings and I was banging on doors and no one would answer and I had to keep stopping to drive just a male stocky build a guy walking around here you know white black just turned 60. but it's six foot three and massive he just got sentenced for something from before I met him and that ruling came in on Friday we went to court and I was there with him I told him I would go so if he was sentenced three years in prison how is he out he is uh he was given 30 uh to 60 days to do uh to turn himself in his lawyer is supposed to reach out by Wednesday about the date for him to turn himself in so he was out on bond originally but yeah yes he's been on bond for but so we hadn't been together a little while I said for the ruling here we go so you know yes we've been engaged I say husband and he usually stood life but we were engaged we've been together for nine months or so um 30th I have two years he had when he was arrested he said where'd you last see him hanging over here he came running and I could hear him and the dogs in that one I guess it was making them loud I think of him running and I was like stop just go just go just leave and he was like come on give me my stuff he broke in the back patio door of where I rented what do you mean give you your stuff sir uh basketball shorts he's old he just turned 60 gray hair six three dark shirt basketball shorts it's like a Navy or black is he said his name James James is this him right here James James [Applause] Do not drop the knife that unit coming up drop it down it's not working don't do it shoot me marijuana no one's No One's Gonna Go to Prison who doesn't love me and you don't move take it back excuse me stop approaching stop shut up [ __ ] drop the knife no shoot me stop stop David 801 shots fired start EMS get the knife all right I got gloves I'm gonna go ahead and start doing uh blue mess IAH [Applause] CPR is 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