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Harford County sheriff’s deputies were locked in tense standoff with John Fauver for about 10 minutes in a Forest Hill parking lot, demanding he get out of his Ford pickup truck and surrender.

Responding to an April 23 call about a potentially armed suicidal man, deputies rushed to the suburban shopping center where he was seen in his pickup truck. There, they encountered a defiant and at times belligerent Fauver, 53, according to body-worn and dashboard camera footage of the fatal encounter released Thursday morning by the Maryland Office of the Attorney General’s Independent Investigations Division.

“I’m so ready to die, man,” Fauver told deputies, who managed to corner him after he jumped a curb in his truck and sped away during their first attempt to stop him.

Much of the released video shows body-worn camera footage from Sgt. Bradford Sives, who urged Fauver to calm down, put his arms up and stop reaching for things in his truck. He and other deputies said they didn’t want to hurt him.

But then Fauver appeared to raise his arms and a long object in the direction of deputies, several of whom were wielding long guns and standing in front of Fauver.

“It’s a cane! It’s cane! It’s a cane!” Sives shouted.

Those comments did not appear to be broadcast over the police radio.

Cpl. Christopher Maddox, who was standing much farther away and whose bodycam footage also was released Thursday, yelled: “He’s reaching, he’s reaching. He’s got a gun! He’s got the gun!”

Maddox fired his handgun first. Several gun blasts followed.