Sacramento police shot and wounded a man armed with a kitchen knife Tuesday evening after he advanced toward officers who were responding to reports of a person with a weapon at Hazel Strauch Elementary School in the city’s Northgate neighborhood.
The shooting occurred shortly before 7 p.m. in the 3100 block of Northstead Drive, according to the Sacramento Police Department and Sacramento Fire Department dispatch records.
Sgt. Justin Boyd, a spokesperson for the department, told reporters that officers responded to a 911 call about a man with a knife about 6:45 p.m. Police said in a later update that “the caller reported a male adult armed with a knife chasing another male adult at a school campus.”…