New bodycam video shows sheriff’s deputies fatally shooting knife-wielding male who authorities say stabbed deputy

Newly released bodycam video from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department shows deputies fatally shooting a knife-wielding male who authorities said stabbed a deputy last month in a Lancaster parking lot.

The video was released Tuesday; the incident occurred June 20 after deputies responded to a 911 call, KABC-TV reported.

‘Stop reaching.’

“Hey, I just want to make a report of a guy with some knives, swinging them in public,” the caller told a dispatcher, KABC said, citing an audio recording the sheriff’s department released.

Surveillance video shows three sheriff patrol vehicles arriving at the scene, the station said, adding that authorities said the suspect — identified as Robert Castro — is seen in the video walking away from the deputies and across a parking lot.

“Before Deputy #1’s patrol