Newly surfaced body-worn camera video captures the moment a man allegedly lured Bellevue police officers to the downtown transit center on December 12, 2025, with what investigators say was a bogus 911 call, then suddenly attacked them with a knife. The footage shows the suspect pulling a blade and going after two officers, leaving one with a deep facial wound and shoulder injuries before another officer opened fire and hit the attacker. The wounded officer was taken to Harborview Medical Center and has since been treated, while the suspect was hospitalized and later booked on felony assault charges. King County investigators are handling the case.
The clip, shared as part of a narrated video breakdown, shows the suspect, identified in charging papers as 38-year-old Mohamed Morray Bangura, speaking calmly with officers at first before producing a kitchen knife and charging. Detectives recovered the knife at the scene, and prosecutors describe the encounter as a deliberate ambush that began when Bangura called 911 to report an escalating domestic dispute. According to KOMO, Bangura was later released from the hospital, booked into the King County Jail and held on $5 million bail.
Prosecutors say the officer who was stabbed suffered a six-inch facial laceration, a dislocated shoulder and a broken clavicle, and was treated and released from Harborview. The other officer fired six rounds, striking the attacker three times. Court papers reviewed by The Seattle Times say the two officers were responding to the transit center at 10850 NE 6th Street when they made contact with Bangura, and investigators later determined the two 911 calls were made from the same phone number, the charges allege.
King County prosecutors charged Bangura with first-degree and second-degree assault, both with deadly-weapon enhancements, and asked a judge to set bail at $5 million, according to public filings. Charging papers allege Bangura filed a complaint against an unrelated Bellevue officer the day before, then used the phony 911 report to lure officers to the transit hub. As reported by Police1, prosecutors described the attack as deliberate and dangerous.
What the footage shows
In the video, Bangura can be heard telling officers that another officer “tried to put a false case on me,” then pausing briefly before pulling out the knife and striking. One officer ducks a downward stabbing motion, while the other is slashed and stabbed as he falls to the ground. Prosecutors included still photos of the knife and the scene in the arrest report, and those images appear in the video breakdown produced by KOMO.
Investigation and access to footage
The Independent Force Investigation Team-King County, known as IFIT-KC, is leading the probe. In a January 21 news release, IFIT-KC said it would decline to publicly release the officers’ body-worn camera recordings, but allowed viewing by the accused’s family and non-law-enforcement community representatives in order to preserve the integrity of a criminal process. The team said it will post updates as the investigation continues. Local coverage has summarized the footage and the charging papers for readers, and those reports remain a key source for the public record.
Legal proceedings
Charging documents allege both counts include deadly-weapon enhancements. Under Washington law, such firearm and deadly-weapon enhancements add mandatory additional time to standard sentencing ranges, a framework laid out in RCW 9.94A.533. Court records obtained by local outlets show Bangura is awaiting a competency evaluation as his case moves forward, and prosecutors have urged the court to hold him on high bail while the investigation continues, according to awaiting a competency evaluation.
