Police have shot and killed an LGBT student activist in the US state of Georgia.
Scout Schultz was shot at a campus in Atlanta after officers received a call about “a person with a knife and a gun” late on Saturday, officials said.
Footage emerged that appeared to show the 21-year-old refusing to obey repeated police demands to drop a knife.
In a video filmed by fellow students at the Georgia Institute of Technology, she can be heard saying "Shoot me!" while continuing to advance on the officers before one of them opens fire.
Investigators said Schultz, who identified as neither male nor female, did not appear to be holding a gun - despite what had initially been reported to police.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said the computer engineering student later died in hospital.
Her mother said the activist, who was the president of the Pride Alliance at Georgia Tech, had numerous medical issues, suffered from depression and had attempted suicide two years ago.
She told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "Why didn't they use some nonlethal force, like pepper spray or Tasers?”
