Rancho Cucamonga police successfully de-escalate a man who first asked a woman if she had a gun and then told her he wanted police to shoot him.
The woman called 911 to inform police about the man and that he was holding something in his hand—what turned out to be a knife.
The incident began in the parking lot of Rancho Cucamonga City Hall just after 6 PM on January 11th. The man, a 21-year-old Rancho Cucamonga resident, approached the woman and “repeatedly asked the female if she had a gun and became upset when she ignored him,” according to the news release. When she encouraged him to seek help at the police station, he replied that “he wanted the police to shoot him.”
The man was sitting on the steps of City Hall when officers arrived. “As Deputy Landino approached, the suspect put a knife to his throat and asked Landino to kill him,” according to the release. “Landino talked to the suspect for approximately thirty minutes, using effective de-escalation techniques to calm him down.”
After the man had been persuaded to put down and move away from the knife he had been holding, police took him to a medical facility where he could be evaluated and treated
