“The panicky 911 caller said a man with a 10-inch butcher knife was threatening people. So when Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies saw a wounded, bloody man rush out of a West Hollywood apartment with someone on his heels, they opened fire.
But the man they gunned down Monday night wasn’t a mad slasher; he was a fleeing hostage.”
Source:Fleeing hostage mistakenly shot by LA deputies – Wire Nation/World – The Sacramento Bee