Deputies Kill 2 in Separate Incidents

In separate incidents, sheriff’s deputies fatally shot two men, one armed with a gun and the other a butcher knife, detectives said Wednesday.

Luis Fabian Delgado, 31, of Lancaster, was shot multiple times by two deputies about 10:40 p.m. Tuesday outside his estranged wife’s home as he approached them with a butcher knife, authorities said.

“You’re going to have to kill me,” Delgado yelled at police, investigators said.

The shooting occurred after deputies responding to a domestic violence call in the 500 block of Kettering Street found Delgado’s wife with a knife wound, Sheriff’s Lt. Jack Jordan said.

Three deputies tried unsuccessfully to subdue Delgado. One fired a nonlethal Taser stun gun, but it was ineffective. As the deputy tried to retreat to reload the Taser, Delgado moved toward him to within five feet, Jordan said.

Delgado was hit multiple times by rounds from the deputies’ 9-millimeter pistols and died a short time later at a Lancaster area hospital. His wife has since undergone surgery for a knife wound to her hand, Jordan said.

In the Athens area of southeast Los Angeles County, deputies shot and killed a 25-year-old man they said had pointed a pistol at them.

Sheriff’s Lt. Gil Carrillo said the shooting occurred about 9:15 a.m. Wednesday when deputies from the Lennox station tried to stop the man as he ran on 102nd Street to Budlong Avenue. As they turned the corner and brought their patrol car to a halt, the man allegedly bent down, produced a handgun and pointed it at the deputies as they got out of the car, Carrillo said.

“Fearing for their safety, the deputies fired rounds from their duty weapons, striking him in the upper torso,” Sgt. Paul Patterson said. The man, who has yet to be identified, died at a hospital. Carrillo said detectives recovered a loaded handgun at the scene.