NYPD releases bodycam footage of cops killing suspect

Bodycam footage released by the NYPD on Wednesday shows a suspect begging Bronx cops to shoot him dead as they attempt to get him to drop a knife.

“Shoot me!” Cornell Lockart says repeatedly. “Shoot me!”

Officers wound up granting the 67-year-old’s wish — firing a total of nine shots and mortally wounding him during the Nov. 13 incident, according to police.

The cops confronted Lockart around 7:30 p.m. that night in a hallway at 1974 Hughes Ave. after receiving reports of a stabbing inside the building, which serves as a homeless shelter.

When they arrived, officers found two female security guards with knife wounds and Lockart allegedly holding a blade. Officials said Tuesday that security footage from inside the building shows the incident go down.

“He stabs them. One is able to escape by jumping over the desk. The other one … goes down to the ground and then crawls out away from him,” explained NYPD spokesman Stephen Davis.

Chief Kevin Maloney of the Force Investigation Division said the suspect had been having a conversation with the two guards, who knew him.

“Then, the subject walks around to the back, takes a knife off his person and begins stabbing both of them,” he said.

The cops who shot Lockart — Officers Shawn Loftus and Nicole Krauss — were both wearing bodycams during the incident. They can be heard ordering him to drop his knife numerous times before opening fire.

“Drop the f–king knife,” Krauss frantically says at one point.

According to Davis, the pair asked Lockart to put down the weapon at least 19 times.

The knife was said to have been 8 inches long, with a 4-inch blade.

Six of the nine shots that Loftus and Krauss fired at Lockart hit him. He later died at St. Barnabas Hospital.