CHARLESTON â Charleston police shot a man wielding a knife Friday afternoon on the West Side after he made a âlunging movementâ toward them, police Chief Tyke Hunt said.
Denaul Dickerson, 33, who is Black, was in stable condition in the hospital at 6 p.m. Friday after the 12:45 p.m. shooting near Washington Street West and Greendale Drive, the chief said.
Police were initially dispatched after receiving a call about a man threatening to stab another person, Hunt said. Itâs unclear whether Dickerson was this man.
At a news briefing Friday, Charleston police shared two body camera videos from the incident. The release of the video footage was an attempt by the department to be âas transparent as possible,â Hunt said.