From Coloradoan.com:
Police asked Jeremy Holmes to drop the hunting knife he was holding more than 40 times before fatally shooting the 19-year-old man July 1 near the Colorado State University campus in Fort Collins, body camera footage released Tuesday shows.
Holmes can be heard in the video telling police he won’t drop the knife, and that he wants to die.
At the culmination of the confrontation, Colorado State University police Cpl. Phil Morris yelled out to Fort Collins Police Services officer Erin Mast that he was going to try to use his Taser to subdue Holmes after making multiple unsuccessful orders for Holmes to drop the knife. In the less than two seconds during which Morris reaches for his Taser, Holmes can be seen charging toward Morris. Morris and Mast then fire multiple shots from their service weapons until Holmes falls to the ground at Morris’ feet.
Fort Collins Police Services and Colorado State University Police Department released body-worn camera footage and 911 audio from two different police shootings Tuesday. 
The Coloradoan is sharing edited versions of the videos from both shootings on Coloradoan.com because they provide the most clear view to date of the actions taken by suspects and responding officers involved in each incident.
Holmes’ fatal shooting marks the first time CSU police has released body-worn camera footage from a shooting involving one of its officers. The department completed a pilot phase of a program testing the use of body-worn cameras last summer. The cameras had only been worn by officers for about two months prior to the shooting.
Two officers shot Holmes, one from Fort Collins Police Services and one from CSU, and the body camera footage from both officers was released. The officers fired a total of six shots.
Good example why a soft impact weapon should always be dispatched to calls like this. Not saying don’t use deadly force if you have to but if you have an officer on scene with a SIW other officers can cover and the SIW officer can try less lethal after the first couple of requests to drop the weapon. It’s just good policy and may result in less incidents of deadly ( although justified) force.
Agreed. At my agency we always try to get a bean bag gun up front if tactically feasible in these types of incidents, each situation being different of course. Good job by the officers and good communication.
The use of a soft impact weapon would have been great if there had been more officers on scene. However, Cpl. Morris was alone until only a few seconds before the shooting. Being alone changes the situation dramatically and his choice of firearm when confronting an armed and resistive subject is very appropriate. When Officer Mast arrives Cpl. Morris begins to transition to Taser (with Mast providing lethal cover) but the suspect charges – likely realizing his hope for suicide-by-cop might be thwarted by the Taser. Had Mast had a soft-impact weapon it would have been a great option, but again this suspect was committed to having the officers kill him and even a good bean bag hit may not have been incapacitating.
Futurama has suicide booths for a quarter. Maybe its time to save us grief and costly forced killings by the cowards.
Male policeman took an unneeded transition to less lethal option. Female officer should have done same. There was nearly a crossfire incident and for sure back drop issues.
Fortunately, only the criminal was harmed.