OMAHA, Neb. -- A badly blooded Omaha man is hospitalized today, shot in the face by Omaha Police, and also suffering from what officers describe as several self-inflicted knife wounds during a struggle that found the man's mother yelling ''help me."

According to police, the shooting occurred as a 37-year-old man grabbed his mother and put a knife to her throat while cutting himself and telling officers to "shoot me."

All this started with a Thursday afternoon 9-1-1 call from a man in a South Omaha home on 41st Avenue who reportedly said his mother was possessed and controlling him with her mind.

Arriving at the house police described the man in a blood-soaked shirt screaming and cutting himself near the throat before moving toward an officer who then fired his taser twice.

Police tell us the man fell to the floor but kept fighting before grabbing his mother and putting her life in danger; that's when the officer who previously fired a taser shot the man in the left cheek with his gun, slowing him down but not stopping him, according to OPD reports.

According to police, the man then lunged towards the two officers, struggling with them until other officers arrived and got the man under control. Medics from the Omaha Fire Department then took the man to the University of Nebraska Medical Center where he was initially listed in serious condition but expected to live.

As police investigate, Chief Todd Schmaderer has released four still-photos from one of the officer's body worn cameras.