Officials: Man killed by police at SFO was armed with 2 airsoft guns

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A man shot and killed by police officers near San Francisco International Airport's BART station on Thursday morning was armed with two airsoft guns, the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office said. PreviousDistrict Attorney Stephen Wagstaffe said his team investigated the incident Thursday morning, spending more than six hours at the airport.The incident is now under investigation by the California Department of Justice.

Under the bill, an “unarmed civilian” is “anyone who is not in possession of a deadly weapon” and"replica firearms are not considered deadly weapons unless they are used in some particular manner likely to produce death or great bodily injury ." "All firearms, and BB/pellet guns, even if unloaded or inoperable, are deadly weapons," the bill says.an official investigation Thursday and confirmed in a statement to SFGATE that the"preliminary investigation indicates that the decedent appeared to have been in possession of an airsoft gun, which is considered a replica gun," the Department of Justice said.

The situation started Thursday morning when multiple reports were made about a suspicious individual in the international terminal, officialsThe San Francisco Police Department responded to the scene near the entrance to the airport's BART station at 7:26 a.m. Thursday and established that the suspect"appeared to be armed with a handgun," the police department said in a

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