Officer shoots, injures knife-wielding man on freeway

A California Highway Patrol officer shot a knife-wielding man on Highway 101 in Belmont early Sunday, prompting authorities to temporarily close all northbound lanes while they investigated at the scene, officials said.

The lanes were reopened around 7:30 a.m., almost four hours after officers responded to reports that a man was walking on the highway’s north and southbound lanes near Ralston Avenue, CHP Officer Art Montiel said.

When officers confronted him at 3:20 a.m., he resisted them, Montiel said. One officer shocked him with a stun gun, which did not subdue the man, Montiel said.

The man then “produced a knife and raised it over his head and charged toward one of the officers,” Montiel said.

As he came at them, one officer opened fire and shot the man, officials said. Paramedics and police performed CPR on the man before rushing him to a hospital, where he was being treated for life-threatening injuries, said Belmont police Capt. Patrick Halleran

CHP officials and Belmont police are working to deter-

mine why he was on the freeway as investigators piece together details of the shooting.

Belmont police ask anyone who may have seen the man on the freeway or the shooting to contact them at (650) 595-7400.