LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) - The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department says a deputy shot and wounded a knife-wielding man who threatened to kill two Lancaster residents and then advanced toward the deputy.
A department statement says a woman was decorating the outside of her home on Sunday when she heard a disturbance a short distance away and saw the man yelling.
The woman returned to her garage and moments later the man appeared at her driveway, holding a knife and saying he was going to kill her.
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When the woman fled, the man turned his attention to a neighbor and said he was going to kill him, then advanced toward an arriving sheriff’s deputy.
The man was shot after refusing to drop the knife and continuing to advance toward the deputy.
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