Police officers in Tustin shot and killed an armed man who charged at them during a response to a call of a homicide, the department said on Monday.<\/p>\n
Officers were called to a home on the 1400 block of Walnut Avenue just after 2:30 p.m. Monday for a call of a domestic incident that was escalated to a possible homicide, the Tustin Police Department said. There, they encountered a man and an unresponsive woman on the ground inside the home.<\/p>\n
According to police, the man charged at the officers with a knife in hand, prompting them to open fire. Despite receiving medical attention at the scene, the man ultimately died of his injuries, Tustin police said.<\/p>\n
The unresponsive woman at the scene was lifeless and may have been dead for what police described as \u201csome time\u201d before their arrival.<\/p>\n
Further details on the woman, such as her identity, age and cause of death, were not disclosed. It\u2019s unclear if she and the man had any relationship to one another.<\/p>\n
The Tustin Police Department did not release the name of the man. The shooting is under investigation by the Orange County District Attorney\u2019s Office as per protocol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police officers in Tustin shot and killed an armed man who charged at them during a response to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,611,6917],"class_list":["post-442762","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-orange-county","tag-tustin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442762","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=442762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}