Police fatally shot a mum-of-three inside her own home after she drew a knife on them while they were responding to a domestic dispute in Dutchess County.
Newly released bodycam footage shows the terrifying moment Jamie Feith, 34, is shot as she approaches officers with the knife, with her boyfriend begging them not to shoot in the background.
The tense footage of the April 29, 2022, killing of the knife-wielding mum was released by the state Attorney General’s Office of Special Investigation on Tuesday as the office looks into the police shooting.
The incident happened in Hyde Park, around 90 miles north of New York City.
The video shows an officer escorting Ms Feith out of a room in the house.
Shortly afterwards she appears to get something from her waistband and officers start shouting ‘knife’ repeatedly.
An officer can also be heard saying: ‘911, send an additional, we’ve got one at gunpoint’ at the moment they try to restrain Ms Feith.
A struggle erupts but she manages to wrestle herself free and the police then try to taser her. Then a voice can be heard saying: ‘shoot her’.
Ms Feith’s partner starts shouting ‘Don’t f***ing shoot her!’
Two more shots are heard followed by sobbing.The distraught partner can be heard saying: ‘No. No. No. No. What the f***?’
Ms Feith was shot in the chest and died at the scene.
One of the officers can be seen removing what looks like a knife from the woman’s hand when the boyfriend says: ‘Get off of her. Get off of her.’
He then can be heard pleading not to be shot himself.
The three officers involved have been named as Joshua Kemlage, Bryan Sweeney and State Trooper Christopher Miller.
The shooting remains under investigation by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
The video was captured on Officer Miller’s body camera, and the initial dispute appears to have ended by the time officers arrived.
New Hyde Town Supervisor Al Torreggiani told the Poughkeepsie Journal he felt the officer would be cleared of any wrongdoing because the suspect had a knife.
