PALM DESERT, Calif. (AP) - Southern California authorities say a knife-wielding man was fatally shot when he moved toward deputies.
The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department says the shooting occurred Tuesday evening in Palm Desert when deputies responded to a report of a man waving a knife in the air and behaving bizarrely.
The man refused to comply with the deputies’ commands and they then used a Taser but it was ineffective.
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The department says the shooting occurred when the man advanced toward the deputies. The man was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
The department statement does not say how many deputies fired. All involved have been placed on administrative leave as required by department policy.
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