From Hudson Sangree:
Yolo County sheriff's deputies shot and killed a Woodland man who threatened them with a knife Thursday afternoon, according to Woodland police.
Sometime after 2 p.m., three members of the sheriff's anti-gang unit intercepted the 26-year-old pedestrian on a freeway overpass, said police Lt. Charlie Wilts.
Wilts couldn't say why the man had been stopped - or if he was an alleged gang member.
They deputies were in a dark unmarked car, which remained at the shooting scene Thursday, parked at an angle to the sidewalk.
The man brandished a knife, and refused to put it down - causing two of the deputies to fire their sidearms, Wilts said.
A total of four shots were fired, he said.
The man was taken by ambulance to Woodland Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Wilts said.
The man's name would be released by the coroner's office, Wilts said.
The officers names have not been disclosed.
The overpass - where East Gum Avenue crosses Highway 113 - was blocked off for hours.
Woodland police cars and a van from the Department of Justice surrounded the shooting scene.
Because the shooting took place in Woodland, city police will conduct a criminal investigation, while the sheriff's department reviews the deputies' conduct.
The Justice Department had been called in to assist, Wilts said.
Photo by Lezlie Sterling: Woodland police and state Department of Justice crime scene investigators check the scene of a fatal shooting Thursday by members of the Yolo County sheriff's anti-gang unit at East Gum Avenue and Highway 113 in Woodland. Police said the 26-year-old man who died threatened the deputies with a knife.
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