Shocking video shows upstate NY cops fatally shooting suicidal rape suspect, 17, who ran at them with knife

Harrowing newly released bodycam footage shows a suicidal teenage rape suspect running at upstate New York cops with a knife – then being fatally shot in a volley of bullets.Guatemalan-born Oscar Granados Colindres, 17, was seen sitting on a ledge on Wappingers Creek Bridge on June 27 as police from multiple agencies responded to a call of a “suicidal subject with a knife.”The teen was suicidal after being kicked out of his home when he was accused of rape, sources told the Times-Union.Officers repeatedly pleaded with him to reconsider, speaking in both English and Spanish for at least 50 minutes.“Life is ugly.

It’s not easy.But look at me, I need you to be strong,” one officer said in Spanish in the footage released by the New York Attorney General’s Office this week.“This is not going to solve anything.

Don’t you think that when the girls grow up, they’re not going to ask, ‘Why did my brother leave?” the officer said of the teen’s two sisters.They also repeatedly pleaded with Granados-Colindres to close the knife he was holding while trying to reassure him that the throng of cops was there to help him.Granados-Colindres eventually hopped down from the ledge and started charging toward the officers — with shots ringing out within a second.At least 10 shots were fired as he fell near a car.

It’s not clear who fired the fatal shot.At least one officer appeared to have tried to tase him, too.An investigation into his death is underway – but his mom believes he would be “alive had trained crisis intervention professionals responded instead of police,” according to lawyers representing the family.The high schooler “loved playing soccer and had great interest in classic cars and automotive hobbies,” his family said in an obit.“His dreams included becoming a professional soccer player, joining the US military, and traveling around the world to visit other countries.”...