{"id":253671,"date":"2026-04-06T04:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/253671\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T04:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:26:08","slug":"sacramento-police-release-body-camera-footage-of-officer-shooting-suspect-armed-with-knife-near-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/253671\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento police release body camera footage of officer shooting suspect armed with knife near school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sacramento Police Department on Sunday night released body camera footage of an officer shooting a suspect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/news\/sacramento-police-shoot-suspect-south-natomas\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">near an elementary school last month<\/a> in the Northgate area.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the incident began around 6:45 p.m. on March 10 when dispatch received a call that a man was on a school campus along the 3100 block of Northstead Drive, armed with a knife and would chase anyone who approached him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The police department redacted the school&#8217;s name from the video, but the scene and report of the call were near Hazel Strauch Elementary.<\/p>\n<p>The Sacramento County Sheriff&#8217;s Office&#8217;s helicopter was able to locate the suspect walking in front of the school and holding a knife, the video shows. Police said the deputies were telling the suspect to drop the knife.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The video shows the suspect walking toward an officer as the officer was pointing a gun at the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>The department said officers made multiple commands for the suspect to drop the knife and tried to de-escalate the situation, but they said the suspect refused and continued toward the officers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is when at least one officer fired their weapon. Police said a less-lethal conducted energy device was also deployed at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was then detained and officers provided medical aid. Officers said in the video that the suspect suffered one gunshot wound to the stomach.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, later identified as 29-year-old Jamal Dearmond of Sacramento, was taken to a hospital before he was booked into jail for multiple counts with a deadly weapon. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said it was determined that the suspect was the person who called dispatch regarding the disturbance. A knife was located at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sacramento Police Department on Sunday night released body camera footage of an officer shooting a suspect near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122,9113],"class_list":["post-253671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sacramento-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253671","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=253671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}