Eyewitness video showed the vehicle that crashed into the Chinese consulate in San Francisco on Monday (October 9), as police confirm they fatally shot the driver. Official details of the incident were sketchy, and police said the identity of the motorist and what precipitated the crash were not yet known. There was no mention of anyone else being injured in the incident.
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A man was shot and killed by police officers after ramming his car into the Chinese consulate in San Francisco. The chaos unfolded around 3.09pm on Monday afternoon when the driver of a Honda Civic smashed through the front door of the Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco’s Japantown neighborhood.
Police investigate where a driver smashed through the entrance to the Chinese consulate in San Francisco ‘Officers entered, made contact with the suspect and an officer-involved shooting occurred,’ said SFPD spokesperson Sgt Kathryn Winters. ‘The suspect was later pronounced deceased at the hospital.’ Few details have been released about the suspect, and it is unclear if he was armed with a weapon. No other injuries were reported after the terrifying collision.
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