Praet said he would try to show that Edson committed a "recognized phenomenon" known as "copicide," or "suicide by cop."
1999 — E. J. Montini, "Prosecuting Mentally Ill Is Insane", The Arizona Republic, 20 June 1999 (reprinted in the Observer-Reporter, 4 July 1999):
Carrie told a police negotiator she didn't have the nerve to shoot herself. Later, she'd tell psychiatrist Gwen Levitt she was hoping to commit what the police call "copicide," in which a suicidal person gets the police to shoot him or her.
2005 — Jane Ann Morrison, "Only heaven knows why someone would choose suicide by cop", Las Vegas Review-Journal, 15 January 2005:
A 1998 academic study of shootings in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department concluded that more than 10 percent of fatal shootings by officers over an 11-year period were likely suicides by cop, also called "copicide."
More weird media excretion: Time Warner homey Ice-T can't say enough nice things about the Man, his employer. Time Warner executives were so supportive during his recent difficulties, he says. They were exceptionally supportive of his totally private and personal decision to recall his ode to copicide from record stores.