San Diego Sheriff fatally shoot woman with knife – Police shooting of Yan Li in California K9 swat

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San Diego, California – On March 3, 2022, Yan Li, 47, was fatally struck by gunfire when three San Diego County sheriff’s deputies and an officer with the San Diego Police Department opened fire on the fifth floor of a condominium complex in the 400 block of West Beech Street. Li stabbed one officer during an attempt to evict her from her Little Italy condo. The footage released by the Sheriff’s Department shows Court Services Deputy Jason Bunch serving Li with eviction papers. She accepts the notice, but when Bunch spots what appears to be a meat cleaver in Li’s right hand, he draws his firearm and orders her “to put your knife down. Put the … knife down.” Li yells back, in heavily accented English, apparently concerned the deputy might be an intruder. Despite Bunch’s continued orders – though at times he mistakenly tells her to “put the gun down” – she maintains her hold on the knife and asks for someone to “call the police.” “You will get shot, if you come at me with that knife, I will shoot you,” Bunch warns Li after he uses his radio to call for backup. When she continues to yell, he repeats his instruction about the knife, telling her “drop the knife please, don’t make me do this.” At that point Li, yelling about “fake police,” hurls the eviction documents into the hallway and slams her front door. She still held the knife. The condo’s manager and a maintenance worker accused Li of threatening them with a knife the day before when they entered her home for a plumbing repair. That report, according to Sheriff’s officials, presented them with “probable cause” to arrest Li for on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. When the video resumes, still from Bunch’s perspective, authorities have entered Li’s unit with guns drawn, finding her in a bedroom peering out from behind a door. When they begin to order her to come out with her hands up, she screams at them and refused to comply. Moments later, after an officer fired repeated rounds from a beanbag shotgun, Li charges out into the main living area of the condominium with a large kitchen knife in her hand, prompting the personnel to back out of the residence. At her front doorway, Li thrusts the knife at the law enforcement personnel, stabbing the officer handling his dog. At that point, SDPD and SD Sheriff's Deputies open fired on Li