BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) - Bakersfield police shot and killed aknife-wielding man Tuesday after he stabbed and critically injured his mother, authorities said.
Officers were sent to Sonora Street at about 8:45 a.m. after a report that a man had stabbed his mother several times and fled with the knife, a police statement said.
A witness followed the man and alerted officers, who confronted him several blocks away, police said.
Officers tried to take the man into custody with less-lethal weapons but that didn’t work and a shooting occurred, police said. The man was pronounced dead at a hospital.
His name and details of the shooting weren’t immediately released.
His mother was taken to a hospital and was listed in critical condition, police said.
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