The man assaulted the detective in his office before the detective shot him, Fresno’s police chief said.
A Fresno detective on Tuesday shot and killed a man who he said had assaulted him at police headquarters, officials said. The incident was reported around 11:45 a.m. at the Fresno Police Department headquarters at 2323 Mariposa Street. The man assaulted the detective in his office before the detective shot him with his firearm, Fresno Police Chief Paco Balderrama said in a Facebook Live update. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. The detective suffered “lacerations on the forehead and part of his neck,” Balderrama said, and was recovering at a hospital.
