Bodycam Video shows Athens officers plead with knife-wielding man before fatal shooting

Athens-Clarke County police on Tuesday released the body camera footage of the moment two officers shot a 23-year-old man holding a butcher knife and drenched in his own blood.

The video appears to show Aaron Hong, 23, clutching the knife while officers repeatedly shout for him to drop it.

Hong shouts "just it" to the officers while walking toward them.

The fatal shooting happened Monday at 1005 Macon Highway near the River Club apartment complex, which is located just south of the Athens bypass.

Officers were sent to the location just before 12:30 p.m. after receiving multiple calls about a man acting "erratically" holding a knife and covered in blood, Athens-Clarke County police Chief Cleveland Spruill previously said