An Ohio police officer is being praised for holding his fire even as a suspect in a killing charged him, saying repeatedly, “shoot me”.

WLWT-TV in Cincinnati reported that the tense moments were captured on Thursday on a body camera worn by New Richmond officer Jesse Kidder. The video shows Kidder backpedaling and telling 27-year-old Michael Wilcox he doesn’t want to shoot him.

Wilcox is charged with killing his 25-year-old girlfriend and is a person of interest in a Kentucky killing. Kidder says dispatchers told him Wilcox could try to force a “suicide by cop” after a chaotic, violent chase.

Kidder says a relative gave him the body camera following the deadly officer-involved shooting in Ferguson, Missouri last summer, which led to months of protests over perceived police brutality.

Wilcox was being held on Saturday on a $2m bond. No attorney information was available.