A deputy shot and killed a man who smashed a patrol car windshield and attacked deputies Thursday afternoon with a wooden stake, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said.
The man died at the scene in the Valencia area of Santa Clarita.
A deputy was answering a report of a screaming, shirtless man before the altercation. When the deputy arrived, the two scuffled and the man grabbed the deputy's radio and stun gun, the sheriff's department said.
The deputy ran to a patrol car to call for backup but the man smashed the window with the radio and retreated behind a barrier. When other deputies arrived, the man charged at them with a foot-long wooden stake and a deputy shot him.
The man has not been identified.
The injured deputy was taken to a hospital with unspecified injuries, treated and released, the LASD said.
