The Franklin County Coroner's Office has identified the man Columbus police shot and killed in the University District early Tuesday as Lamine Mahmoudi, 34.
Police shot Mahmoudi after authorities said he approached them with two edged weapons in an alley.
The shooting happened after officers made multiple visits to a house on Chittenden Avenue on Monday night.
In a news release, police said they were called to an address in the 200 block of Chittenden Avenue between North 4th and Summit streets around 7 p.m. Monday on a report of a person with an edged weapon bleeding inside the home.
Police brought in the Mobile Crisis Response Unit, which pairs Columbus Public Health clinicians and trained officers to assess and de-escalate mental health and crisis situations.
According to police, the person did not talk to the officers and the scene was cleared.
Officers went back to the home around 10:25 p.m. after a call that the person was threatening other residents with a knife. Officers found the person alone inside the home.
The officers contacted the Mobile Crisis Response Unit again. The unit responded to the scene and talk to the individual by phone. The person refused help from police.
Then around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday, officers found the same person in an alley near the Chittenden Avenue home. Police said the person approached them holding an edged weapon in each hand.
Police say officers ordered the person to drop the weapons, but the person didn't comply.
Officers fired a Taser and firearms, hitting the person, who was pronounced dead at 1:36 a.m.
The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation is investigating the incident, which is standard procedure when an officer's weapon is fired.
The names of the officers involved in the shooting have not been released.
