INDUSTRY, Calif. (AP) - Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a man who they say charged at them with a knife early Sunday, officials said.
Deputies responded to the city of Industry around 2:20 a.m. following a report of a person hit by a train, sheriff’s officials said in a news release.
As deputies checked for a possible victim, they saw a man kneeling by the railroad tracks, the release said. When deputies approached the kneeling man, he allegedly stood up and charged at them with a knife in his hand. One or more of the deputies fired their weapons, according to authorities.
The man was struck by gunfire and pronounced dead at a hospital, sheriff’s officials said. He was not immediately identified.
The incident remains under investigation.
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