Police Kill Alleged Mexican Bandit at Border
San Diego police officers shot and killed a Mexican national believed to have been robbing people near the U.S.-Mexico border, police said Sunday.
About 11 p.m. Saturday, six San Diego police officers and two U.S. Border Patrol agents were walking in three groups north through the canyon area southwest of Hollister Street and Monument Road when one of the groups was approached by two men, police said.
One of the men pointed a sawed-off weapon at the officers and began talking to them in Spanish, police said.
“The officers believed they were about to be shot,” Lt. Tom Orden said in a press release.
Three of the four officers in the group shot at the armed man, who died at the scene, Orden said. The second man, who was unarmed, was taken into custody without incident and arrested on suspicion of attempted robbery, Orden said.
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