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SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Calif. – The San Jose police officer who shot and killed a mentally ill, heavily armed man in 2025 acted lawfully, the Santa Clara County District Attorney\u2019s Office announced on Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n The ruling stems from a\u00a0July incident<\/a> in which officers were called to a home in San Jose by the parents of Karim Khan, a 37-year\u2013old man who was reportedly being violent. Khan\u2019s autopsy showed he had been shot five times.<\/p>\n The officer who fired the shots, Sebastian Wisniewski, has been cleared of any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n Khan had previously been diagnosed with schizophrenia.<\/p>\n Called to the scene <\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n Khan’s parents reported he was unarmed, but upon arriving, officers found he had armed himself with a pump action shotgun, a bolt-action rifle, a revolver, and a semi-automatic pistol, along with more than 50 rounds of ammunition, according to a press release from the District Attorney\u2019s office.<\/p>\n Responding officers reportedly conferred with Khan\u2019s parents in the driveway of their home on Recife Way, then entered the backyard to speak with Khan.<\/p>\n Four officers entered the yard and approached Khan, who drew a rifle and pointed it at them, at which point they retreated to the front yard.<\/p>\n They spoke with Khan over the phone for 10 minutes, trying to get him to drop his weapon and exit the backyard unarmed.<\/p>\n “I know this is not going to end well for me\u2026 I have no intention of backing down,” Khan told police, according to the DA\u2019s office.<\/p>\n Upon being asked what kind of weapon he was carrying, Khan reportedly told officers, “You\u2019ll find out soon enough.”<\/p>\n Escalation <\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Shortly after the call ended, Khan fired a shot in the officers\u2019 direction, striking a police vehicle parked about four feet from where the officers were standing.<\/p>\n Khan jumped over the backyard fence into a neighboring property, where officers were stationed. Body camera footage<\/a> shows Khan and Officer Wisniewski firing almost simultaneously.<\/p>\n The officers told Khan to stop moving, the release states, but he did not comply. Wisniewski, a firearms instructor and former marine, fired multiple shots while telling Khan to stop moving, resulting in Khan\u2019s death.<\/p>\n “For decades, Khan\u2019s parents provided their son with a robust and caring support system. Unfortunately, the evidence suggests Khan still struggled, independently acquiring firearms and eventually creating an armed confrontation with law enforcement,” the District Attorney\u2019s office stated in a release. “His conduct that afternoon placed the officers in an impossible situation that required lethal force in self-defense.”<\/p>\n The Source: Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office, previous KTVU reporting<\/p>\n News<\/a>San Jose<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Calif. – The San Jose police officer who shot and killed a mentally ill,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1184,100,88,90,89,198,1181],"class_list":["post-364888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-ca","tag-news","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"San](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/tr4pk196ufuuvppc.jpg\")
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