The New York State Attorney General's Office of Special Investigation is looking into the tragic death of Allison Lakey, who died following an encounter with Syracuse police in October 2021. What really happened during that confrontation? You want me to try to just say that, hey, I'm with the crisis response team. Maybe like I'm new to this. I want to try to if she hears a new voice and if if that fails. Yeah, let me try. Yeah, Ellison, it's it's Officer Nico. with Syracuse police. I'm new to this situation. You want to talk to me? I'm part of the crisis response team. I literally just got here, so I have no clue what's going on. Listen, we want to leave, okay? But we have to figure out We can't let you light a house on fire, right? We We can make this go. We can get all the people to get out of here, but we can't have you lighting the house on fire, and we can't have you armed yourself with weapons. Where's your mom? She's at the hospital. Your your mom's at the hospital. I can call Chris. He's back there. Can you Can you put the weapons down and stop lighting stuff on fire and just talk to us? Ellison, we can keep this distance. We just can't have you lighting the house on fire, right? Does that make sense? Yeah, you still got a ladder back there to that second window. Alison, we at this point we can't leave. Okay, you've All right, the fire department's here. We might be able to use one of theirs. Uh if you Alison, if you just talk to me, we can just get through it. She's right towards us. She's behind the window over here. Ellison, how can we get this resolved? Okay, I know you don't want us here, but I just told you we can't leave until you continue to talk to us, right? How? But we can't. I I'm telling you that right now. We can't leave without you talking to us and dropping all those weapons. Okay. Nobody here wants to hurt you. What happened to your mom? Why is your mom at the hospital? Is that who you live here with? We'll hold here. Yeah. [Applause] Yep. And we do have See, Lisa's responding. Yeah. So, we're going to go right up to the window. The windows open. We'll have cover through there. Uh we'll be face to face. Which window is it? That one right there. Yeah. Can you see her here? She was She was behind that fridge. She's down by the She's bleeding. Oh, there's a window there. Okay. Oh, my bad. Ellison, are you hurt? It's Nico again. I was just talking to you at the other door. Allison, it's Nico. I just came to the back door so you could see me. Don't [ __ ] come in here. Alison, you're you're you're hurt. Okay. I can see you're bleeding. That's why we're here. Who does she live here with? You know, her mom. Any kids or anything that were here earlier? Alison, who lives at this house with you? Don't [ __ ] come in here. Yeah, we we have to come in here if you're hurt, right? Hey, we just want to make sure you're not you're not going to get hurt any further and you can't be lighting the house on fire. Alison, what's your mom's name? So, you're you're hurt on your wrist. Is there anything else that's hurt? Any kids? I'll watch his back. Allison, what can I do to make you continue to talk to me? Yeah. Okay. We won't we won't have to come in there right now. But you understand you're hurt, right? And you're lighting the house on fire. That's why we're here. We're not going to be able to leave yet. How can we resolve this right now? Is there something that I can get you? Something that we can do for you to make you continue to talk to us and just come out? You can put the weapons down. If you're hurt, is there something we can get you to are you looking to harm yourself or you just upset? Ellison, are you are you looking to harm yourself anymore? Can I get you anything to take care of those wounds so you don't you don't continue to bleed? We're not going to leave. All right. Are there any pets in the house, Alison? We just want to make sure that they're safe because of the smoke, brothers, sisters. Allison, you don't have to say much, but you can just tell me how you want to resolve this. as soon as you can. Okay, we're not coming in there right now. Right now, I'm just talking to you. Just focus on talking to me. Okay, I'm not in there right now. I'm literally at this window. Can you just look at me so you can see that I'm here just talking to you? I'm not coming in. What is it that you're lighting on fire? I'm trying to get I'm just trying to see if she'll answer anything. watching the stove still. Yeah. Alison, is still is there still a current fire in the kitchen? Yeah, I can see it now. Make sure we get everyone up to that wall, too. Cuz if they come in there for whatever reason, have to the wall. There you go, Ellison. You can see me right here, right? Yeah. There's there's still there's still an active fire in there. And she's bleeding. Look at the look at the bottom of her. Alison, where are you injured? Do you hear that, Alison? Your mom's back. Yeah. Let them know that there's a legit active fire. Like you can see it. I think the mom's coming back to talk to us. Allison, we're not going to leave. Okay. I can see that there's a fire in the kitchen and you're injured. talk to. No, go. Don't let them talk her to talk to the mom. Have the mom come talk to us. Yeah, the mom's here. Okay. Hey, they're saying, "Do you want to talk to your mom from across?" She can't talk to her mom. Okay. I haven't talked to mom. We're just No, they just said it from Whoever's over there was like, "Hey, Alison, do you want to talk to your mom?" Whoever's across the way there. Yeah, that fire is getting huge. Yep. It's Yeah. Let them know. I'll let him know. Ellison, if you don't continue to talk to me or come out, we're gonna have to come in there. Okay. We're going to have to cuz that fire is way too big. You cannot be in there with a fire going like that. You got to come out here. Allison, do you understand why we're going to come in there? Yeah. Stand by that car in case we need to look through that wall at that. Yeah. Right now she's confined in here. Uh just you got eyes on that door, right? Is that unlocked? Okay. So this wall ends here and then it's flush with it. So that's a small one, one door that leads to the other door. Yeah, the fire is bigger and bigger every time. I don't know what she's lighting on fire, but no, just saying we Ellison, can you just acknowledge that you still are listening to me? I I can see that there's a big fire in there. We're going to have to come in. Okay. Why don't you just put the fire out? If you put the fire out, this is her house. Can you put that fire out? Let me see you put the fire out and I and we won't come in there. She loves to draw. She loves to do likes drawing. That's game's grandma's house. Alison, this is your grandma's house, right? Do you have any of your paintings or drawings in here? We wouldn't want those to burn, right? We want to damage Don't want to damage your grandma's house. So, why don't you just turn the fire off so we don't have to come in there? I don't want to damage your your grandmother's house or anything that you have in here that you that that you you know like I know you like to draw. She's still standing in the se sitting. LT. She's still right inside the kitchen behind the freezer door right to the right when you enter that kitchen area. Allison, you have to come out. Okay. Or just fire. Yeah, they got a Yeah, the fire, you can tell, is really big in the kitchen. Allison, we have to come in because of the fire. Okay, we we're going to have to come in there. Turn the fire off so we don't have to. Yeah, there's a No, there's just only the tasers up there. Okay, she's right. Yep. Allison, please. What is she doing? Is that her? Come in here. I don't know what she's doing, but it's getting Yeah, the smoke is getting real heavy in the house. If we're going to have to move or should she move now? Cuz look, we can't. We might have to go. This This fire's getting bigger, sir. We're going to have to bear. Where does this Where does this leave? Right here. Kick that [ __ ] door right now. Is there a PRV on scene? She's making entry. Alison, let us see your hands. [ __ ] Alison, let us see your hands. We don't want to hurt you. She's behind the freezer. Yep. Behind the freezer. Big fire. Yep. Ellison, drop the knives. Taser. Taser. Taser. She's got a knife in the hand. Drop the knife. Drop the knife. Drop the knife. Drop the knife. Drop the knife. Drop the knife. I got I got it. I got good coverage. I got good coverage. [Applause] Drop the knife. Drop the knife. Drop the knife. Drop the knife. Taser. Reload. Reload. If you have to drop the knife, drop the knife. Taser. Taser. Taser. Watch cover. Watch cover. I got one, too. Heads up. She's standing. She's standing up. Get her again. I got one too. Anything through the through the hole. Nope. Try again. Get another one. Watchire. Watch crossfire. No. Get another one. Come up. Get another one. Nope. She's up. She's up. Nope. Alison, drop the knife. Get another taser. Go through there. The taser working at kind of just moving there. Keep keep zapping her taser right now. He'll go. Got to go. The active. Got to go. We got to go. Active. Active. Go. Go. Go. Got to push. Get in there. Drop it. Drop it. Drop the knife. Is there like a back off? Drop the knife. Get one. Help. I got one. I got What do you need? What do you need? Get a good hit on her. Drop the knife right now. We got a taser. Got to push, guys. Got to push. We got to go in. Breathe. Got to push. Jesus. Who's in the back there? She still has a knife in her hands. Ellison, drop the knife. Get out. Come on, Ellison. We don't want to keep doing this. She's still looking at us with a knife. She's still You guys got to Allison, come on. Please [ __ ] hose, right? Drop the knife. Drop the knife. Just extinguish it. She's in this corner. I got you. Leave the cover. Move back. Move back. I can't see. I can't see. She's more. I got lethal cover. Hey, back up. Back up. She's got the knife in her hand. We got any more tasers? I'm out. I'm out. I'm out of danger. I'm out. I'm out. I'm out of danger. The fire's out. There's still some fire. No. Shots fired. [Music] Good. Good. Good. I can't breathe. Good. Good. [Applause] Good. All right. EMS. EMS. EMS. EMS. I picked it over there. Start CPR. Start CPR. Come on. Go. Come on. Come to the right that way. Come on. Let's go. Let's go. Move. Move. Move. Move. Move. Move. Move. Move. Move. Go. Go. Got her. Keep going. Keep going. Got it. Where did you get her? Everywhere. I saw one in the face or one to the chest.