COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A man fatally shot by a Columbus police officer while allegedly brandishing a knife has been identified.

The Franklin County Coroner’s Office confirmed Monday morning that 26-year-old Colin Jennings died after being shot multiple times by police on Thursday in east Columbus. In a 1 p.m. news conference, Assistant Chief LaShanna Potts shared body camera footage from the encounter.

As two officers arrived in the 500 block of North Nelson Road, their cameras captured Jennings walking out of a building and onto a parking lot sidewalk with a knife. He continuously moved toward the two officers, and one officer pulled out a Taser while the other drew their firearm. As the man rounded a turn on the sidewalk, both officers fired their respective weapons at the same time.

While answering questions from reporters, CPD Sgt. Rich Brooks said the division’s Tasers are only effective “about 50% of the time.” He noted Jennings’ thick jacket seen in the video prevented the Taser from working properly since its probes couldn’t make contact with his skin. As he walked around the corner, Brooks said the officers also lost a requirement from training for using the non-lethal weapon.

“The officers trying to deploy the Taser have to have some kind of cover. In this case, they were trying to use the parked car, but the suspect’s actions advancing toward them, they couldn’t use the car any longer,” Brooks said. “A Taser’s only effective up to 25 feet.”

The Columbus Division of Police declined to name the officers involved in the shooting, citing victims’ rights statute Marsy’s Law, but said they have been with the force for 13 and 14 years, respectively.

The shooting stemmed from a report of a man brandishing a knife, cutting himself, and fighting with another man. After the shooting, the two officers tried to give Jennings aid before medics took him to Grant Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. No officers were injured in the incident.

In the 911 call also released on Monday, the caller said Jennings was trying to hurt himself with a knife, that he was fighting with him and trying to take the phone away. The caller also said this was not the first time this happened.

“The situation was evolving, the two parties were moving,” said Ken Coontz, administrator for the city’s Division of Support Services. “It started to become combative with each other, so that makes it very difficult to obtain all the information you need when you know there’s a police response required, like in this situation.”

In recent years, Columbus has rolled out more alternative crisis response programs, incorporating mental health experts and social workers in addition to police in certain situations. One of those is called the Right Response Unit, which has a social worker stationed at the 911 call center. Coontz said the RRU was not used in Thursday’s incident.

“There are situations where that is not possible and a police response is required,” he said. “Those calls involve weapons or violence.”

The city also said the east side apartment building where the shooting took place is specifically for housing and care of those with mental health needs. City leaders said that information was not in the police computer system.

Moving forward, the city is asking organizations that want to share that information about their buildings to reach out.

The Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Investigation was called to investigate the incident, which is standard procedure for any shootings involving police officers.

The news conference was originally scheduled for last Friday but was postponed because the Jennings’ next of kin had yet to view police body camera footage.