{"id":407318,"date":"2026-07-22T00:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T00:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/407318\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T00:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T00:58:09","slug":"investigation-continues-after-man-armed-with-knife-is-shot-and-killed-by-irvine-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/407318\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation continues after man armed with knife is shot and killed by Irvine police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation is ongoing on Tuesday after a man allegedly charged Irvine police officers as he was armed with a knife, leading to a police shooting and his death.<\/p>\n<p>Irvine Police Department officers responded to a man having a mental crisis in a residential area at Silkwood and Sungate around noon. Officer Ziggy Azarcon said officers attempted to negotiate a peaceful surrender for about an hour.     <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The man ran toward an officer with the knife, and an officer-involved shooting occurred,&#8221; Azarcon said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The man was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An officer was injured, and they self-transported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/screenshot-2026-07-21-171017.png#.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2026-07-21-171017.png \" height=\"342\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  An investigation is underway after a man allegedly armed with a knife was shot by police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                CBS LA<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is ongoing on Tuesday after a man allegedly charged Irvine police officers as he was armed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-407318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407318","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=407318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}