{"id":440768,"date":"2026-08-22T22:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T22:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/440768\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T22:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T22:44:08","slug":"santa-monica-police-shoot-and-kill-person-who-charged-with-a-knife-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/440768\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Monica police shoot and kill person who charged with a knife \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Monica police fatally shot a person who allegedly charged at officers with a knife at Palisades Park on Saturday while they were investigating an unrelated domestic violence incident, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Santa Monica Police Department said officers responded to Palisades Park near the 1400 block of Ocean Avenue around 12:49 p.m. following a report of domestic violence, according to the department.<\/p>\n<p>While officers were interviewing witnesses, an individual who was not connected to the domestic violence investigation approached the officers armed with a knife and charged at them, police said. An officer opened fire, striking the individual.<\/p>\n<p>The person shot was transported to the hospital, where he died.<\/p>\n<p>The officer involved in the shooting was not injured, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities did not immediately release the identity of the person who was killed or provide additional details about what led up to the confrontation.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators remain on scene to gather more information on the incident. <\/p>\n<p>Police asked the public to avoid the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Santa Monica police fatally shot a person who allegedly charged at officers with a knife at Palisades Park&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,8267],"class_list":["post-440768","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","tag-santa-monica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440768","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=440768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}