Bodycam footage shows knife-wielding man stab cop outside Santa Monica police station

A knife-wielding antheral stabbed an officer outside of a Los Angeles constabulary station, starring the lawman to fatally sprout his attacker successful a terrifying country captured connected the cop's bodycam.

The suspect, who identified arsenic 28-year-old Deyaa Abdelhadi Halaibeh, showed up astatine the beforehand doors of Santa Monica Police office and rang the telephone fastener arsenic an serviceman was heading extracurricular to speech to a abstracted individual, Fox News reported.

There were 2 further radical extracurricular the station, prompting the serviceman to archer Halaibeh that helium had to hold his crook earlier they could talk. 

The officer's bodycam footage showed the fishy with his close hand suspiciously wrong of his jacket, alarming the officer.

'What's successful your jacket?' the bull said. 'I'm benignant of tense with your manus wrong your overgarment similar that.'

'You're nervous?' Halaibeh responded earlier abruptly lunging astatine the serviceman with an eight-inch chef's knife.

Halaibeh stabbed and slashed the serviceman aggregate times earlier the bull was capable to tally distant and gully his weapon arsenic the fishy gave chase. 

The conflict continued earlier respective shots were fired, with the serviceman capable to abstracted from Halaibeh and sprout him arsenic the fishy held the weapon successful his hand.

Halaibeh, a New York nonmigratory who had nary transgression past successful California oregon immoderate anterior interaction with Santa Monica Police, was pronounced dormant astatine the scene.

The serviceman was taken to the infirmary for attraction and has since been released.

The fishy had stolen the weapon helium utilized from a Target store minutes earlier the attack, assaulting an worker successful the process, Fox reported.