{"id":213702,"date":"2026-03-10T21:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/213702\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T21:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T21:38:08","slug":"shoot-me-anaheim-man-with-knife-tells-officers-before-he-chases-victim-chino-police-open-fire-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/213702\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Shoot me,\u2019 Anaheim man with knife tells officers, before he chases victim. Chino police open fire \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bodycam footage released this week shows a man who was threatening a woman with a knife in Chino responding \u201cshoot me,\u201d after police ordered him to drop the weapon. Moments later, as he pursued the victim,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailybulletin.com\/2025\/11\/17\/chino-police-shoot-injure-man-accused-of-wielding-knife-after-report-of-domestic-violence\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> they opened fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A witness called police to report a woman screaming coming from 16250 Homecoming Drive in Chino around 9 p.m. on Nov. 16, 2025, according to a critical incident video Chino police released on Monday, March 9.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy neighbors are having a domestic dispute and he\u2019s hurting her. It\u2019s really bad and there\u2019s yelling and screaming,\u201d the witness told a 911 dispatcher.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s hitting her. She\u2019s crying for help,\u201d said the witness, who could see the altercation through a window.<\/p>\n<p>Another neighbor also called 911, telling dispatchers that \u201csome kind of abuse\u201d was going on and they could hear a woman saying \u201cDon\u2019t stab me,\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t kill me\u201d and something about a knife. The caller said it was their second time calling within about a week, according to audio of the call.<\/p>\n<p>Warning: Some readers may find this video disturbing<\/p>\n<p>The bodycam footage shows Chino police arriving at the home and entering through the garage shortly after 9 p.m. Inside, they found 29-year-old Royce Johnson of Anaheim \u201cholding a large knife aggressively towards the female victim,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p>As a police officer walks up the stairs, a woman can be heard on the bodycam footage yelling stop. The officer says, \u201cDrop the knife\u201d and Johnson responds, \u201cNo.\u201d The officer tells the woman to get back before ordering Johnson to drop the knife again. With his arms spread out, Johnson says, \u201cShoot me\u201d before turning away from the officer.<\/p>\n<p>He then chases the victim, who is trying to go to a bedroom, down the hallway with the knife, police said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Bodycam footage released Monday, March 9 shows the moments leading up to and the shooting that injured a 29-year-old man threatening a woman with a knife in a Chino home in Nov. 2025. (Photo Courtesy of the City of Chino Police Department)\" width=\"1918\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IDB-L-CHINO-SHOT-031103.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"11472281\" \/>Bodycam footage released Monday, March 9 shows the moments leading up to and the shooting that injured a 29-year-old man threatening a woman with a knife in a Chino home in Nov. 2025. (Photo Courtesy of the City of Chino Police Department)<\/p>\n<p>Video shows the officer firing several shots at Johnson, who falls to his knees at the end of the hallway.<\/p>\n<p>Officers gave Johnson medical aid at the scene and he was brought to a hospital. His injuries were not life-threatening, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson was charged with assault with a deadly weapon other than a firearm and battery by the San Bernardino County District Attorney\u2019s Office on Nov. 20. Court records show Johnson pleaded not guilty to both charges.<\/p>\n<p>He is expected back in court on March 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bodycam footage released this week shows a man who was threatening a woman with a knife in Chino&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,138,610,100,609,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-213702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-inland-empire","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-police-shooting","15":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}