A team of lawyers has sued the New York Police Department in an effort to secure body-camera footage from the fatal shooting of a mentally ill woman last year in Queens, saying video and audio from the incident would shed light on police interactions with people undergoing mental health crises.

New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, along with pro bono counsel from Milbank, filed the lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court on Friday, after the NYPD declined to turn over footage of the deadly encounter involving 54-year-old Susan Muller in her home last September.