At 8:05 am this morning, Sacramento County Sheriff officers were dispatched to Campanile Way in Rio Linda, after a 911 advised that there was a possibly suicidal subject on scene. The callers advised that the subject was in the bathroom, bloodied and armed with a knife.

Upon arrival, Sheriff Deputies attempted to call the subject out of the garage. Once he responded, he advanced toward the sidewalk, still armed with a knife.

Sacramento County Sheriff Public Information Officer Amar Ghandi says that multiple “less-lethal” rounds were fired at the subject, but were ineffective.

Eyewitnesses say that the subject continued to advance, but failed to heed officer warnings. Two officers fired three shots, and the subject was pronounced dead on the scene.

We observed multiple homes in the area with security cameras, and Deputy Ghandi said that the body camera footage of the incident would be released.

Sheriff Jim Cooper arrived later to observe the investigation.

Speaking to the victim’s sister briefly, (She was grief-stricken, obviously), she said that her brother was schizophrenic and mentally ill, and she had called multiple times over the past week to get him some help. Speaking to Medi-Cal, they said it would have been over a month to get him into any kind of care.

The scanner audio is interesting. The call went out to deputies (Units 15 Boy and 17 Boy) at 8:05 am, and were on scene less than 10 minutes later.

at 8:28am, 12 Sam, (A Seargent) asks one of the responding units to call him on the phone.

At 8:30, just 2 minutes later, 12 Sam, seemingly agitated that he wasn’t acknowledged before, says “12 Sam, I copy the updates, units on scene back off from him and give me a call please.”

At 8:32, the shots fired call went out, along with “Suspect down”.

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