An LGBT student advocate was killed by police at Georgia Tech this weekend.

Shortly after 11pm on Saturday, a call was made to campus police about a person with a knife and gun. Authorities approached Scout Schultz, president of the campus Pride Alliance, who reportedly was carrying a pocketknife.

A video shows officers saying, "Come on man, let’s drop the knife" and "Nobody wants to hurt you, man." Schultz, who identified as bisexual and nonbinary, did not comply, and shouted "Shoot me." The 21-year-old computer-science major was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital and were pronounced dead 30 minutes later.

"Scout always reminded us to think critically about the intersection of identities and how a multitude of factors play into one’s experience on Tech’s campus and beyond," Pride Alliance stated in a Facebook post.

Schultz’ mother, Lynne, says her child suffered from depression and had attempted suicide two years ago. She criticized the department's use of lethal force: "Why didn’t they use some nonlethal force, like pepper spray or Tasers?" she told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

“Scout was always a perfectionist,” Mrs. Schultz added. “They always worried he was going to fail a test but got all A’s and only two B’s at Tech. [Scout] had a lot of empathy for people, active in a lot of causes. And very smart. Scary smart, really."

An attorney for the Shultz family says they don't believe Scout was intentionally baiting police to kill them. "I think [Scout] was having a mental breakdown and didn’t know what to do."