LA deputy shoots man armed with a hatchet in Compton

COMPTON (AP) — A man armed with a hatchet was shot to death, Thursday, on a confrontation with a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy in Compton, authorities said.

Deputies were called to a convenience store on South Santa Fe Avenue, at around 12:15 p.m., by a report of a man with a knife, a Sheriff’s Department statement said.

Store surveillance video showed a man in a gray hooded sweatshirt swinging a hatchet and apparently threatening a clerk who had asked him to leave, KTLA-TV reported.

The man returned to the store a couple of times before leaving and deputies searching the area spotted him at a nearby shopping center, KTLA-TV reported.

The man was shot after he was seen approaching one of the stores with the hatchet in his hand, the Sheriff’s Department said.