Bodycam footage shows crazed NY knifeman tricking a cop to help then stabbing him in neck before getting gunned down

Shocking body cam footage shows a crazed New York man suddenly lunging at a cop outside a California precinct — repeatedly stabbing the officer before finally being shot dead.The newly released footage shows Deyaa Abdelhadi Halaibeh, 28, first knocking over and attacking a Target employee while stealing an eight-inch chef’s knife he used to attack the cop.Halaibeh — thought to have traveled to California from the Empire State just days earlier — then hustled over from the Target to the nearby Santa Monica Police headquarters, buzzing a call button to speak to an officer as two other people waited ahead of him.“What’s in your jacket?” the responding officer asks as the nervous-looking caller keeps his right hand in his jacket breast pocket.“I’m kind of nervous with your hand in your jacket like that.”Halaibeh responded, “You’re nervous?” — before taking at the knife and lunging at the cop, the video shows.The chaotic footage then shows the officer making a mad dash from Halaibeh, who managed to stab him multiple times before being fatally shot, police said while releasing footage of the Oct.

5 horror.“I’m hurt — I’m stabbed,” the officer tells colleagues who rush out to the sound of gunshots.“Without warning, the individual attacked the officer while pulling a knife from his clothing.The suspect slashed and stabbed the officer,” Santa Monica police said in a statement.

“The wounded officer sustained multiple severe stab wounds to his neck and shoulder region, requiring immediate trauma care.”Despite the violent ambush, the officer survived and was discharged from a hospital the following day.His protective vest was what saved him, police said.

Halaibeh has no criminal history in California or priors with the Santa Monica Police Department, according to cops — who did not say why he is thought to have traveled thousands of miles from New York to California.Police did not say where he lived in New York.“Investigator...