Bodycam video shows police shoot suicidal man in Point Loma

Authorities Monday released video footage of a police shooting that killed a knife-wielding suicidal man last month in a Point Loma neighborhood.

Jacob Lyle Epple, 32, was mortally wounded when San Diego Police Department Officer Yosgart Miranda opened fire on him at Bermuda Avenue and Ebers Street on the morning of May 31.

The events that led to the fatal law enforcement gunfire began shortly after 9 a.m. that day, when a 911 caller reported that Epple was standing in the middle of the street in the 4400 block of Coronado Avenue in Ocean Beach, telling onlookers that he wanted to die, according to the SDPD.

As officers were en route, Epple got into his car and drove off. A short time later, Miranda spotted…