Man shot and killed by Lemoore police officer after attacking officer with knife, chief says

LEMOORE, Calif. (KFSN) -- A antheral has died aft a Lemoore constabulary serviceman opened occurrence during an onslaught successful a Lemoore apartment.

Lemoore Police Chief Michael Kendall says the incidental started astatine 1 p.m. Tuesday connected Blake Street, adjacent 18th Avenue and Hanford Armona Road.

He says the serviceman responded to a telephone for "some benignant of battle that took spot astir 5 years agone successful Reno."

The serviceman started to speech with the man, who invited the serviceman wrong to interrogation him astir the anterior assault.

Chief Kendall says erstwhile inside, the fishy grabbed a weapon and tried to onslaught the officer.

The serviceman would occurrence his pistol and sprout the suspect.

Medical attraction was fixed to the man, but helium would aboriginal dice arsenic a effect of the gunshot wounds.

The serviceman was not injured. The antheral has not been identified.

Chief Kendall says the Kings County Sheriff's Office volition beryllium taking implicit the investigation.

The serviceman volition beryllium placed connected administrative permission per the constabulary department's policy.

This is the archetypal officer-involved shooting successful the metropolis of Lemoore since 2019.

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