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1 Killed In Rowland Heights Deputy-Involved Shooting

ROWLAND HEIGHTS (CBS) — Authorities Saturday said a man who was stabbing someone was fatally shot by a sheriff's deputy in Rowland Heights.

 

Deputies responding to a report of an assault about 9:15 p.m. Friday at La Serena Apartments on Colima Road found the suspect stabbing someone, Sgt. Rob Blunt of the sheriff's Walnut/Diamond Bar station said.

Deputies ordered the aggressor to drop the knife, but he continued stabbing the victim and was shot, Blunt said.

The names of the suspect, as well as the stabbing victim were not immediately released.

Blunt said the stabbing victim was hospitalized.

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