Southern California cop shoots dead man who stabbed him in unprovoked attack

A Southern California police serviceman fatally changeable a man who stabbed and slashed him Saturday evening, according to authorities.

The serviceman was speaking with a pistillate astir an unrelated lawsuit successful beforehand of the Santa Monica Police Department headquarters, conscionable steps from the city’s celebrated pier, erstwhile helium was attacked, cops said.

A antheral successful his 30s walked up to the serviceman and brandished the knife, the Santa Monica Police Department said successful a Facebook post.

“Without warning, the idiosyncratic attacked the serviceman portion pulling a weapon from his clothing,” the section wrote. “The fishy slashed and stabbed the officer.”

The cop, who was described by KCBS arsenic astir 35 years old, backed distant and astir the country of a building, pulled his weapon and changeable the attacker dead, according to police.

“Santa Monica officers rendered aesculapian assistance to the taxable until Santa Monica Fire Department took implicit beingness enactment efforts,” Santa Monica constabulary said. “The taxable was pronounced dormant astatine the scene.”

The serviceman was hospitalized with superior injuries, KNBC reported but is expected to marque a afloat recovery.

The Santa Monica Police Department is investigating the incidental internally, and the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s bureau volition besides probe the constabulary shooting.

With News Wire Services