A teenage lady who the police say threatened two ladies with a knife was fatally shot by an officer in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday afternoon, shortly earlier than a jury reached a responsible verdict in the homicide trial of the former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in final 12 months’s killing of George Floyd.

The lady’s dying solid a direct pall over public expressions that justice had been served in Mr. Floyd’s case and touched off protests in Ohio’s capital metropolis.

At a information convention on Tuesday evening, the Columbus Division of Police released body camera footage from the officer, who officers mentioned had been responding to a 911 name about an tried stabbing round 4:45 p.m. in the southeastern a part of the metropolis.

Officials mentioned the video confirmed the teenager lunging at two different females with a knife as the officer arrived at the driveway of a residence. The officer then fired a number of instances — 4 pictures could possibly be heard in the video — at the lady. She collapsed to the floor subsequent to a automobile that had been parked in the driveway, the place the physique digicam footage confirmed a knife on the floor.

The lady who was killed was recognized as Ma’Khia Bryant, 16, by a spokeswoman for Franklin County Children’s Services, who mentioned in an e-mail on Tuesday evening that Ma’Khia had been in foster care.

“No matter what the circumstances, that family is in agony and they are in my prayers,” Ned Pettus Jr., the public security director for the metropolis of Columbus, mentioned throughout the information convention. “They deserve answers. Our city deserves answers. I want answers, but fast, quick answers cannot come at the cost of accurate answers.”

The identify of the officer, who officers mentioned has been taken off the avenue whereas the taking pictures is investigated, was not launched. The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation will conduct an impartial inquiry, which native officers mentioned is commonplace at any time when an officer shoots somebody.

Earlier on Tuesday evening on Twitter, Mayor Andrew Ginther of Columbus urged residents to maintain the peace as protesters descended on the scene.

“This afternoon a young woman tragically lost her life,” Mr. Ginther mentioned. “We do not know all of the details. There is body-worn camera footage of the incident. We are working to review it as soon as possible.”

A girl interviewed by The Columbus Dispatch recognized the sufferer, who was Black, as her teenage niece. The girl, Hazel Bryant, advised the newspaper that her niece lived in a foster residence and received into an altercation with another person at the residence.

Rayshawn Whiting mentioned in an interview on Tuesday evening that he was at his brother’s home only a few blocks away from the place the taking pictures befell to observe the Chauvin verdict when he heard gunshots. When he noticed on social media what was happening, he walked down the avenue to hitch the throng of protesters who reached between 150 and 200 individuals at their peak.

“I’ve got daughters,” he mentioned. “And I’m tired of it. I feel like a polar bear with the ice caps melting. We have nowhere to run. If we protect ourselves, we go to jail. If we don’t, we die.”

Chris Roberts mentioned in an interview that he was in his yard together with his twin daughters when he heard the gunshots from only a few yards away. He mentioned they ran in the home and known as 911. Since the taking pictures, he mentioned, his daughters didn’t need to be alone.

“How do I teach my daughters when you call for help, and you expect help to come, you could be on the other side of the gun?” he mentioned.

A crowd of protesters gathered exterior the metropolis’s police constructing, native information media reported.

The teenager’s dying shortly obtained widespread consideration, together with from Ben Crump, the Floyd household’s lawyer, amid a seamless reckoning over police accountability and systemic racism.

“As we breathed a collective sigh of relief today, a community in Columbus felt the sting of another police shooting” Mr. Crump mentioned. “Another child lost! Another hashtag.”

Earlier Tuesday evening, when members of the Columbus City Council have been discussing the want for a civilian overview board for police accountability, Shannon Hardin, the council’s president, addressed the shooting.

“As we watched the verdict from Minneapolis many talked about a sigh of relief, but there is a truth that for so many in our community there is no relief,” Mr. Hardin mentioned. “This is not right. It’s not OK, and it can’t continue on.”

Michael Woods, the interim police chief of Columbus, mentioned at the information convention later Tuesday evening that it was unprecedented in the metropolis for physique digicam footage to be launched so shortly after a taking pictures by an officer.

“We wanted to get that out as soon as possible,” he mentioned.

Columbus has been gripped by rigidity over police shootings since early December, when Casey Goodson Jr., 23, was shot to dying at the entrance of his residence by a Franklin County sheriff’s deputy assigned to a fugitive job power.

Members of the job power had been in the space on the lookout for somebody in an operation that had nothing to do with Mr. Goodson.

Two weeks later, Andre Hill, 47, was shot 4 instances by a Columbus police officer who was responding to a name a few suspicious car. When officers arrived to research, they encountered Mr. Hill, and one in every of the officers, Adam Coy, a 19-year veteran, opened hearth inside seconds. Mr. Coy, who was fired after the taking pictures, was charged with felony murder in the case.

Lucia Walinchus and Lew Serviss contributed reporting, and Jack Begg contributed analysis.