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PITTSBURG — Police released audio and video depicting a man’s shooting by an officer last month at the end of an hours-long mental-health episode at a hotel.

Authorities identified the man as Ashton Porter, 45, of Alpharetta, Ga. Porter has been charged with five counts of assault upon a firefighter or police officer, one count of trespass or refusing to leave private property and one count of vandalism over $400, according to charging documents.

Police released a video Tuesday that used footage from multiple officers’ body-worn cameras. An accompanying statement acknowledged that the department’s 20-hour response meant that some officers’ cameras were not recording, due to drained batteries, as the incident ended.

The video shows various portions of the standoff, which began about 12:30 p.m. Feb. 23. Officers responded to the Hampton Inn Suites, 1201 California Ave., after dispatchers began receiving calls about sounds of yelling, smashed items and breaking window glass from a man on the inn’s fourth floor.

“We have a guest that is basically not opening his door and at the same time you can clearly hear that there’s glass that’s being broken and he’s also screaming and placing something in front of the door,” an employee told a dispatcher. The worker added that the guest was screaming for help and that family members were present but that police presence was needed.

An officer who soon arrived spoke with family members and learned that the man was having a mental-health issue and had barricaded himself inside the room with furniture and broken a room window.

After the man declined police requests through the room door to speak with them or exit the room, claiming that he was fine and “just needed time,” officers reached out to the department’s crisis-intervention team and the county’s mental-health evaluation team and mobile crisis-response teams for help.

Members of both teams joined other family members in speaking to the man, who continued to deny needing help and refusing to explain his status.

Around 9 p.m., after hearing the man say he wanted to “end it all” and learning the man had a knife, police used a truck with a boom arm extended up to the hotel’s fourth floor to place a plywood sheet over the room’s broken window. At the same time, members of the department’s tactical team arrived to assist officers.

Both county teams left the hotel shorty after midnight after the man’s continued refusal to come out. Remaining officers tried to talk to him through the door until around 6:40 a.m., when he managed to stick a knife through a damaged hole in the door toward a tactical-team officer.

“If at any point in time you want to listen to what I’ve been trying to tell you, we’re going to make sure you come out and everything’s safe and I can make you a lot more comfortable,” an officer told the man in part. “But the longer you don’t listen to me, the worse it’s going to get for you. I’ve been nothing but honest with you.”

“I know,” the man said. “But I don’t feel safe.” The officer answers: “The only safety you’ve got is listening to me.”

Soon after, officers began using rounds of chemical irritants and kept talking to try to get the man to come out of the room. Shortly after 8:10 a.m., he relented and came out, holding a butcher-style knife in his hand.

After two officers in the hallway struck the man with less-lethal sponge projectiles to no effect, he turned toward officers at one end of the hallway with the knife raised over his head. At that point, an officer used his service weapon to shoot the man, hitting him twice and knocking the knife to the floor.

Paramedics staged at the scene joined officers in providing medical care before taking him to a hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.

ORLANDO, Fla. - Orlando police have arrested a man they say stabbed an older female hotel worker multiple times earlier this month.

Cordarryl Glenn Demby, 35, is facing several charges including attempted felony murder stemming from the March 2 incident at the Best Western Inn Orlando on West Colonial Drive.

On Thursday, detectives provided details about the crime. They say Demby was at the hotel for around 20 minutes before attacking the woman, which was caught on camera.

Demby was reportedly released from the Orange County Jail on March 1. He was supposed to pick up his property which was close to the hotel.

Demby reportedly walked in and out of the hotel and asked the clerk to show him a room. In security video, the victim is seen behind the counter and Demby is walking around on the other side. He suddenly jumps over the counter and hits and stabs the woman. When she tries to get up, he hits her again. Demby then reportedly steals money and leaves, which was less than $200.

Authorities say Demby has a lengthy criminal history.

The victim is healing is now out of the hospital.

The San Diego County Sheriff's Department released video Friday of a fatal shooting that occurred last week in Little Italy after a woman stabbed a San Diego Police Department officer in the chest.

The incident took place at around 12:30 p.m. on March 3, in the 400 block of W. Beech Street in Little Italy.

The video shows a San Diego County Sheriff's deputy serving an eviction notice to the woman identified as Yan Li, 47, at the Aqua Vista condo complex. When she answers the door, she receives the notice from the deputy and is seen carrying a knife. The deputy tells her to drop the knife and then takes out his gun and points it at Li.

The deputy repeats commands to drop the knife multiple times, while Li shouts concerns about how to know whether the deputy is an imposter. The two continue to argue before Li throws out the notice and closes the door. That's when the deputy calls for backup.

SDPD K9 arrived at the scene along with additional deputies. They tried to communicate with Li for the next 45 minutes before they went inside her condo, according to SDPD Lt. Matt Dobbs. The footage released by SDSO shows a supervisor attempting to speak with Li through the door.

Li didn't answer, so authorities broke through the door and instructed Li to show her hands while pointing their guns at her. Li then ran at the officers with a knife and allegedly stabbed an SDPD K9 officer in the chest. Li continued wielding a knife toward the officers after they fell on the ground, and then three SDSO deputies and one SDPD officer fired multiple shots at Li.

Li was struck at least once and died at the scene, according to Dobbs.

The Psychological Emergency Response Team (PERT) was called to the scene, but it's unclear if and when they showed up.

Dobbs added that Li threatened a custodial worker at the building a day before. SDSO said in the video that based on the reported crime, there was a threat to public safety and probable cause to arrest Li for assault with a deadly weapon before entering her apartment.

The injured K9 officer was treated at UC San Diego Medical Center for his injuries was released. He was wearing a protective vest but was stabbed above it in his upper chest, according to Dobbs.

The personnel who fired their guns during the encounter have been identified as SDPD Officer Rogelio Medina, and Sheriff's Sgt. Daniel Nickel and Deputies Javier Medina and David Williams.

Medina, a member of the SDPD Canine Unit, has been with the department for 13 years. Nickel has been employed by the Sheriff's Department for 29 years, Medina for 23 years and Williams for 14 years.

The shooting is under investigation by SDPD's homicide unit. When the investigation is finished, it will be reviewed by the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office to determine if the officers bear any criminal liability for their actions.