MESQUITE, Texas — Editor's note: Police released body camera video of the deadly shooting. WFAA is showing the video in context for transparency. Viewer discretion is advised.
Mesquite police released body camera video, the 911 call and more during a Friday afternoon news conference related to the police shooting death of Ashton Pinke.
Pinke, 27, was shot Tuesday morning after officers responded to an apparent domestic violence situation after a 911 hang-up call.
Officers were sent to the Audubon Park Apartments Tuesday after dispatchers said they could hear screaming and the sounds of a struggle in the background of a 911 call before it hung up, according to a police spokesperson.
The 911 call released on Friday showed there was a woman screaming multiple times and police said dispatchers could hear her say, "Please don't hit me," Lt. Stephen Biggs said during the news conference.
When officers arrived at the complex on the 5800 block of Northwest Drive, bodycam video from one of the responding officers showed Pinke answer the door to the officer and close the door.
The woman later told investigators that she was standing behind Pinke when he answered the door and was signaling to the officer for help, Biggs said at the news conference.
"He was calm, but not cooperative," Biggs described.
The officers continued knocking, and, eventually, the woman came outside with a child. She told officers that Pinke assaulted her and that he had a knife.
She and the child pointed officers to where Pinke had gone.
Body camera video then shows officer searching for him.
"Come on down here and talk with me," the officer is heard saying on the bodycam.
Pinke, according to police, had climbed out of a second-floor window of the apartment and dropped to the ground. Officers then placed themselves between the woman and child, and Pinke.
In the bodycam footage, Pinke was standing around a corner and can be heard repeatedly saying "shoot." Officers raise their weapons at this point.
"Does he have a gun?" the male officer asks in the video.
"She said he had a knife," the female officer replies.
Police said he refused any commands by the officers and made no effort to run or drop his weapons. Police said Pinke then charged at the two responding officers with a knife and a club - a supposed walking stick that had been modified with "batteries and sockets" at both ends.
Here's what police recovered from the scene.
Photos: Here are the items Mesquite police recovered after shooting death of Ashton Pinke
Pinke was shot multiple times. The club fell and the knife fell out of his hands while he was on the ground. He later died at the hospital.
Mesquite police said that there is a review of policy or training and an internal investigation.
Pinke's family said that he was suffering from a mental health episode. They also said that the club was actually a walking stick that he used daily.
In police chatter audio released by the department, a dispatcher can be head saying that he is a mental health patient with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and depression.
Officers were advised that there were mental health issues reported before, but the call police were responding to was a 911 hang-up call. The events that unfolded did not allow for a longer mental health response, Biggs said.
"This escalated in a matter of two minutes, from the time officers got there to the deadly force event. It was severely limited because of his actions severely limited things," Biggs said. "With foresight and so forth and the ability to look at things, we can’t judge these officers in the span of 25 seconds in what they had to do."
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When asked about officers having the ability to use a Taser, Biggs said that Pinke had two deadly weapons.
"We are not countering two deadly weapons with a less-lethal device," Biggs said.
Officers, according to officials and police documents, had responded to the location before. Records from police showed nearly a dozen calls for service to the same address, mostly for "disturbance" calls.
Sheldon Smith, president of the National Black Police Officers Association, said domestic violence calls are the most dangerous calls a police officer can respond to, "because you never know what is going to happen."
When a suspect has a knife, officers are trained to use deadly force, according to Smith.
Neither officer was hurt during the shooting, police said.
Meanwhile, both officers have been placed on administrative leave with pay while the investigation continues.
Reporter Rebecca Lopez contributed to this report.