Police in Gwinnett, Georgia, shot and killed a man about 1:00 a.m. Saturday after he allegedly charged at them with a knife.
WSB-TV reports that a security guard called police about a suspicious person. The guard alleged a man had approached her with a knife while she “was in her security vehicle in front of the Food Depot.”
The guard said the man asked her if she was armed.
Officers spotted the man upon reaching the scene and ordered him to drop the knife. Instead, he allegedly charged the officers and they shot him, 11 Alive notes.
The man was taken to a hospital, where he died.
Police do not know what the man, allegedly armed with a knife, was doing in the parking lot.
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