Officers responding to a report of a stabbing tried to detain the suspect, who drew a butcher knife and attempted to throw it at the officers, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said.
Huntington Park police officers shot and killed a man wielding a butcher knife Thursday afternoon, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Huntington Park police officers found the suspect on the 1900 block of Slauson Avenue and attempted to detain him. The man drew a foot-long butcher knife, the Sheriff’s Department said, and tried to throw it at the officers. They responded by using a Taser on him at least twice.The man again tried to throw the knife at the officers, “at which time an officer-involved shooting occurred,” according to the statement. The man was shot in the upper torso and pronounced dead at the scene.
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