Coroner ID’s gunman shot and killed by police

REDWOOD CITY » Authorities have identified a man who was shot and killed by police after reportedly opening fire at officers in downtown Redwood City last weekend.

Marco Antonio Carlos, 31, died Saturday afternoon in a confrontation with police outside the Wells Fargo Bank branch near Broadway and Main Street, according to the San Mateo County Coroner’s Office. He was listed as a transient.

Carlos attracted police attention when a witness saw him holding a black handgun while pacing back and forth in front of the bank’s exterior ATM machines that face Broadway, according to Redwood City police.

Officers in the city’s Street Crimes Suppres- sion Team responded to the report, and “immediately recognized (Carlos) from previous police contacts,” police said.

The officers, one of whom knew Carlos personally, initially tried to talk him into disarming himself and surrendering, said District Attorney SteveWagstaffe, whose office is investigating the shooting.

“Officers tried speaking with themale in both English and Spanish for several minutes, but the suspect continued to move back and forth with his finger on the trigger of the gun and did not respond to the officers,” police said.

Police, now joined by deputies with the Sheriff’s Office, were readying “less-lethal weapons” to subdue Carlos when he “took a combative stance, raised his gun” and fired a single shot at the assembled officers, Wagstaffe said.

“The gun was pointed at them, and they responded with gunfire,” Wagstaffe said.

Seven Redwood City police officers and one sheriff’s deputy opened fire at Carlos, who was hit multiple times, Wagstaffe said.

Officers tried to revive Carlos with CPR and other measures, but responding medics eventually pronounced him dead at the scene. A handgun and a shell casing presumably linked to Carlos were recovered.

The officers and deputy who fired their weapons were placed on paid administrative leave, which is routine after an officerinvolved shooting in the county. Wagstaffe said his office planned to release a report on the shooting by the end of February.