Man Threatening His Wife With A Machete Is Shot And Killed By Police In California

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities in Northern California released body camera video showing a man covering his eyes with one hand and raising a machete in the air while walking toward his wife and a sheriff’s deputy, before the deputy shot and killed him.

The man was fatally shot on Sept. 28 in the front yard of his Sacramento home after his wife called police, saying her husband had a machete and was suicidal. The Sacramento County Coroner’s Office identified him as Jaime Naranjo Bautista, 55.

The Sacramento Sheriff’s Office released a video Tuesday that shows the deputy arriving at the home and talking to Bautista’s wife outside. Within seconds, Bautista appears at the door and begins to walk toward his wife and the deputy who asks him several times to “put it down.”

Instead, Bautista covers his eyes as and raises the machete and advances toward his wife. The deputy pushes Bautista’s wife to the ground and yells “don’t do it” before firing five shots, less than a minute after arriving at the home.

Bautista was taken to a hospital where he died.