By Police1 Staff
EL MONTE, Calif. — A man was shot and wounded by police after he threw his knife at officers responding to an incident at a donut shop.
According to KABC, police received a call that an unidentified suspect tapped at the window of Yum Yum Donuts Monday morning with a knife, demanded coffee and pastries, then walked off.
When police attempted to confront the suspect, he threw coffee at the officers. The suspect raised his knife and threw it at police after officers deployed a TASER twice.
Lt. Joe Mendoza told the news station that officers opened fire, wounding the suspect. The suspect was shot once in the torso and was transported to a local hospital in stable condition.
No officers were injured.
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