A Glendale, Ohio, police officer is being hailed for his restraint after body-camera video shows his encounter with a knife-wielding murder suspect who was begging police to shoot and kill him.
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Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters released the body cam footage to the public on Wednesday and said Hilling was “one courageous individual” and “deserves a medal for what he did”.
Deters says Hilling stopped Aleman on March 29 and Aleman pulled a knife on him.
With the knife in his right hand, Aleman charges toward the officer before Hilling fires one shot, wounding Aleman and knocking him to the pavement.
In the 13-minute long footage, Officer Hilling approaches Aleman at about 5:30pm (local time) and questions why he was walking along an OH highway.
Hilling has had a clean personnel file and good performance reviews since joining the Glendale Police Department as a part-time officer in 2011, newsnet5.com’s sister station WCPO determined after examining his file.
Everything seemed fine on the surface, until Hilling went to pat Aleman down.
Hilling joined the Glendale Police Department as a part-time officer in 2011, WCPO said after looking at his file, adding that he’d only been full-time for 12 weeks when his confrontation with Aleman occurred.
This dramatic video shows the moment a knifeman repeatedly demanded police officers kill him before he was gunned down on a busy motorway.
Hilling can be heard yelling, “Sir, please, just get down”.
However, Aleman repeatedly pulls himself up off the ground and follows the officer, still wielding the knife.
If that wasn’t impressive enough, Hilling somehow had the presence of mind to call out the location of other officers and maneuver them around vehicles on the roadway, so that officers wouldn’t back up and find themselves pinned against traffic, making themselves easy targets for Aleman where they would be forced to shoot. That’s when the officer saw a knife come from the man’s waistband.
The prosecutor said there is a high probability that the knife recovered from Aleman in suburban Cincinnati was the one used in the Maryland slaying, but authorities are awaiting DNA results. It’s unclear who fired the stun gun.
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It has since emerged that Aleman is wanted by Baltimore County Maryland Police in connection with the homicide of a 51-year-old man on March 17.
