PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Upper Merion police said officers shot and killed a man in a King of Prussia home overnight after he threatened them with a knife.
Around 11:15 p.m. Wednesday, police said the Montgomery County Mobile Crisis Unit was at a home in the Glenn Rose section of Upper Merion Township but had to leave to get more resources.
At 12:54 a.m., a woman from the same residence called police and said a man was armed with a knife.
When officers got there a few minutes later, police said they could see the man with a knife inside the living room of the home.
Efforts to de-escalate the situation were unsuccessful, and the man refused to drop the knife despite multiple requests and orders.
Police used a Taser on him but it didn’t work. When the man lunged at police with the knife, two officers shot him, investigators said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
His name and age are being withheld until his family is notified.
The shooting happened in Montgomery County but the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office will handle the investigation. As per policy, the officers will be put on administrative leave pending the results of the investigation.