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Bodycam footage released after BRPD officer fatally shoots stabbing suspect inside apartment building
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BATON ROUGE — Police released bodycam footage of an officer-involved shooting that took place inside an abandoned apartment building along Titian Avenue.
The stabbing happened the night of Sept. 7, with the shooting happening on the morning of Sept. 8. The now-deceased man, identified as 33-year-old Devin Morris, was a domestic violence suspect who stabbed an elderly man several times at a home along Winthrop Avenue, BRPD Chief TJ Morse said.
The chief said Morris led police on a pursuit before barricading himself inside an apartment for five hours.
Officials told WBRZ that the stabbing victim survived and noted that his injuries were non-life-threatening.
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