officer-involved shooting

Los Angeles Police Department officers shot a man Friday who was allegedly armed with a hammer and a hatchet in the Westlake district.

Surveillance footage released Friday by the Escondido Police Department shows an officer shooting a man accused of charging the officer with a crowbar.

A special prosecutor will over see the investigation into the Vallejo police shooting of 20-year-old Willie McCoy.

Reviews of four police shootings — two of them deadly — and an in-custody death by the district attorney’s office determined the officers involved acted reasonably in defense of themselves and/or others and would not be criminally prosecuted.

A former San Diego County Sheriff’s Department deputy accused of shooting and killing a mentally ill man who had escaped custody outside the downtown jail in May has been charged with second-degree murder, the San Diego District Attorney’s Office confirmed Monday.

The former deputy resigned following the shooting after 18 months with the sheriff’s department.

A man who was shot by police after allegedly charging at an Escondido officer with a 3-foot crowbar pleaded not guilty today to charges including assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer.

A man who violated a restraining order was shot by an Escondido police officer after he approached them with a crow bar in hand during a traffic stop, authorities said.

As the nation grapples with questions surrounding law enforcement’s use of deadly force, the family of a man who was shot and killed by San Diego Police earlier this year is now suing the city and the officers involved, demanding answers about what really happened that day.

Demonstrators gathered in Oakland Monday demanding justice for Erik Salgado, a 23-year-old man who was shot and killed by CHP officers over the weekend, one block away from his middle school and one block away from where his mother lives.

NBC 7 Investigates reporter Alexis Rivas has more from Toby Diller’s family about his death and the lawsuit.

Officials identified a policeman who got into a non-fatal shooting over Memorial Day weekend in East Village.

NBC 7 has learned the San Diego County Sheriff’s deputy that opened fire on a mentally ill man who escaped custody last week is no longer with the department. In a statement, a spokesman for the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department told NBC 7 that Deputy Aaron Russell tendered his resignation on Wednesday, May 6, five days after the deadly…

Nicholas Bils was running away when a sheriff’s deputy shot and killed him last week, reports NBC Investigates’ Alexis Rivas.

Three days after a deputy fatally shot a man running away from state park rangers outside the county jail downtown, police are keeping an unusually tight lid on the investigation.

A mother wants answers after her son was fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy on Friday. NBC 7 Investigates reporter Alexis Rivas has more.

The San Diego Police Department released video Wednesday of an officer-involved shooting that occurred at a homeless encampment in Otay Mesa in February. The video, published on YouTube and narrated by SDPD Chief David Nisleit, shows a confrontation during a homeless enforcement operation in the Otay Valley Regional Park. Warning: This video contains graphic language and visual content. Through the…

The family of a mentally-ill man armed with a shovel who was shot and killed by San Diego Police Officers in August 2019 have filed a legal claim with the city of San Diego. Police officers Jose Mendez and Brad Keyes were called to a home on Adelaide Avenue on Aug. 24, 2019, after a woman called 911 to request…

The San Diego Police Department have released the name of the 70-year-old man and two officers who were involved in a shooting last month in an Otay Mesa canyon. The Neighborhood Policing Division was conducting an outreach and cleanup opreation on Feb. 27 at the Otay Valley Regional Park when two officers encountered a man in an illegal encampment. When…