The New York Police Department will likely release video from the first fatal police encounter captured by body cameras worn by officers, the police commissioner, James P. O’Neill, said Tuesday evening.

The encounter occurred last Wednesday, after the police went to an apartment in the Edenwald neighborhood of the Bronx to check on a tenant at the request of the landlord. After a lengthy standoff, two police officers fired their service weapons at the tenant in question, Miguel Richards, 31, who had met the officers at the door with a knife and was later seen holding what appeared to be a firearm — but was in actuality a toy gun, according to the police’s account of the shooting. Four officers who were present were all wearing body cameras.

Since then, the police have not released any footage of the encounter, the first fatal police shooting in New York City captured by the body cameras that are currently worn by just a small fraction of the patrol force. Days passed without public release of the footage, raising the question of whether this would emerge as a pattern in future cases.

But speaking at a New York Press Club event on Tuesday evening at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, Commissioner O’Neill indicated that at least some of the footage would likely be released soon.