The police shot and killed a knife-waving carjacker in the midst of complete chaos in the streets of Washington, DC on Tuesday.
Disturbing images, agents shouted at the armed suspect to get to the ground after he climbed in a police cruiser on the 3500 block of Georgia Avenue NW, in Columbia Heights.
Just before that, the suspect had reached another cruiser and waved his knife to an officer.
He finally ran away before he tried another vehicle with a woman in carjack.
Then the police opened fire on the suspect, who died on the spot.
Authorities later identified the suspect as the 29-year-old Surafel Zerihun, from Northwest.
DC's Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela A. Smith described the amazing series of events that led to the 'furious' man being shot by an officer.
She said the massacre started when the suspect “drove on the onside traffic and a marked MPD cruiser hit the north around 6.10 pm on Tuesday.”
Smith said that the suspect jumped out of his vehicle after the collision and 'produced a knife', which he used to threaten the officer who was within the cruiser.
The moment the police killed a carjacker in the midst of complete chaos in the streets of Washington DC was caught on the camera
The police shared an image of the knife acting by the suspect, who seemed to be Flipmes
He reached through an open window in the cruiser and DEmanded the officer's service weapon as he waved the knife to the officer, “said Smith.
The officer withdrew into the passenger chair of the cruiser and shouted at the suspect to 'come back' – but he refused and kept waving his knife.
The agent responded by opening the fire. He then jumped out of his vehicle to check the condition of the suspect during the Radio for Backup.
The suspect managed to get his knife out of the ground before he approached the officer again.
While the officer shouted at him to stop, the suspect of the Tack changed by requesting from a second police cruiser further down the block and came in.
Various reacting officers chased him, the cruiser was cornered and demanded that he got out.
“After several commands, the suspect comes out of the cruiser while he is still armed with the knife,” said Smith, and described the moments shown by the video that has been placed online.
'The suspect then approaches a vehicle that is occupied by a woman in the parking lot of the laundry.
“He opened the vehicle's driver's portal while he was still armed with the knife in his hand and tried to carjack the vehicle.
“At the moment, one of our officers fired his service weapon with the suspect and saved him.”
The police responded by shooting at the man, who died on the spot on the 3500 block of Georgia Avenue NW, in the Columbia Heights area of ​​the city
Emts rushed to the stage, where the suspect was declared dead.
Smith said that none of the officers involved or the woman were injured in the vehicle.
The two officers who fired shots were placed on administrative leave, in accordance with the standard procedure for incidents with police gunfire.
The police shared an image of the knife exercised by the suspect, which seemed to be a Flipmes.
The MPD told DailyMail.com that the investigation is underway and the name of the suspect will be released in the coming days.
