The body camera video shows a tense scene. A police officer waits outside an apartment door with medics, knocking but not hearing a response. Dispatchers told the officers there may be a domestic violence victim in the apartment. Minutes pass by before they hear her yell from inside.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department released body camera video from the fatal Aug. 20 shooting. Video shows Peter Corey, 27, attacking the officers before they shot and killed him. One officer was stabbed during the melee.

What You Need To Know

  •  The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department released body camera video from an Aug. 20 shooting after a court ruled it should be made public

  •  The video shows officers responding to what appears to be domestic violence when a man attacked them

  •  One officer was stabbed in the head before another officer shot the man

  • CMPD released video from 68 officers who responded. The graphic body camera video is available online here

The screaming was their cue to get in the apartment. Video shows CMPD officers are able to unlock the door with a key from the building, but they have to kick their way through because something is blocking the way in. More yelling from a bedroom is heard on the video

As the two officers make their way into a bedroom, a man, identified as Corey, is seen with a black handgun, the video shows. He appears to drop the gun. But then, the video shows Corey lunge at Officer Tyler Bourque, knocking him to the ground.

A second officer, identified as Shawn McMichael, moves to push Corey off the officer onto the ground. The video shows Corey swinging a knife at McMichael. 

McMichael was stabbed in the side of the head, according to CMPD. He was seriously injured but survived. It's then that the sound of a gunshot is heard on the body camera video. Bourque shot Corey, police said, and medics waiting in the hall quickly came in to treat the suspect and the injured officer. 

Medics pronounced Corey dead at the scene.

The woman in the apartment had been shot before police got to the scene, authorities said. Medics took her to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. 

The shooting happened in an apartment building in Charlotte's South End on the 300 block of West Tremont Avenue, according to police.

CMPD released footage from 68 body cameras Thursday. Police said they found "multiple firearms and knives" in the apartment. 

“I am so proud of the lifesaving, heroic actions of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s officers during this incident,” CMPD Chief Johnny Jennings said.

“We routinely train for situations like this involving active violence. Officers Bourque and McMichael rose to their training, putting their lives in extreme danger for the sake of the protection of innocent life. Police officers are never able to predict the circumstances that they are about to encounter," he said.

The State Bureau of Investigation is looking into the incident, which is standard practice when a police officer is involved in a shooting.