Machete-Wielding Teenager Shot By Police In South Austin: VIDEO

SOUTH AUSTIN, TX -- A man claiming to be armed with a gun and machete called 911 saying he was "waiting for officers" at Odom Elementary School was shot by police early Tuesday.

The incident occurred shortly after 4 a.m. when the 19-year-old called police himself to alert to his presence at the campus in the 1000 block of Turtle Creek Boulevard. Before police arrived, a reverse 911 call was sent to 1,500 homes in a half-mile radius of the incident urging them to shelter in place until the scene was contained, Austin Police Department Chief Art Acevedo said.

In a subsequent press conference, Acevedo said the teen likely wanted to provoke officers to shoot him. His assessment is not only based on the young man's actions, but on interviews with family members who told investigators the man is prone to depressive episodes that were most recently sparked by the breakup with a girlfriend.

APD officials later identified the suspect as Ray Barbosa Ojeda. The officer involved in the shooting was identified as James Harvel, currently assigned to the Special Operations unit who has been with the force for 16 years.

During the standoff with police, during which time the man wielded the machete while clutching his cell phone with his left hand, the suspect said "watch this," to police as he raised the long knife as cops moved toward him, Acevedo said.

That's when the suspect was shot. Acevedo said the man was shot once in the abdomen, and is currently in stable condition after undergoing surgery. The police officer who shot the teen -- a 15-year veteran of the force -- was placed under administrative leave as is the custom in police-involved shootings, the chief said.

During the post-standoff news conference, Acevedo said no gun was recovered from the suspect. But given the darkness in the dusk hours, the wielding of the machete and the suspect's aggressive behavior toward police, the action was necessary to defuse the situation, the chief suggested when the question was posed to him.

"You have to remember, this happened in hours of darkness," Acevedo said. "The suspect claimed to have a gun the entire time, was indicating from the beginning that he had a gun, that he intended to go around this neighborhood being up to no good."

What's more, the man did have what is being described as a machete in his right hand, Acevedo reminded reporters. Given those tense moments, officers have to make split-second decisions, he inferred.

"It's a pretty tough situation for the officers," Acevedo said. "They don't have X-ray vision or super powers where you can actually zoom in with the naked eye," he said. "I'm just very grateful that despite what appears to be this man's attempt to have officers use deadly force on him, that hie is going to be okay, that he is stable, and that there won't be any loss of life."

With the situation defused, the area is now safe -- including for the staging of any summer programs that may have been planned at the campus -- Acevedo said.

This is the sixth officer-involved shooting in recent months, and the second shooting of a  male teenager not armed with a firearm. In February, now-fired officer Geoffrey Freeman shot dead a black teenager who was running his North Austin neighborhood naked in the throes of some sort of mental distress. David Joseph was 17 years old.

In April, there were two more officer-involved shootings: One involving a man believed to be breaking into vehicles that resulted in the officer being shot and an incident after a SWAT response to reports of an 18-year-old selling drugs out of his home that resulted in an officer being shot in the leg.

This also was the second officer-involved shooting involving a suspect wielding a knife in South Austin.

In April, an officer fatally shot Tyler Hunkin, 29, during an encounter with a police officer. The cop later said the man was wielding two knives simultaneously, and Acevedo later categorized his death as a "suicide by cop" scenario.

Watch Acevedo's press conference below: