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SAN DIEGO — San Diego police shot and killed a fleeing robbery suspect late Monday morning after he took a hostage, holding a knife to the victim’s neck in the Morena area, authorities said.
Three officers opened fire on the suspect. The hostage was not hit, said sheriff’s Lt. Michael Krugh. The Sheriff’s Department is handling the investigation under a countywide protocol designed to prevent departments from investigating shootings by their own officers or deputies.
The suspect — who officers shot with a stun gun before he took the hostage — died at the scene of the shooting, which happened on a stretch of Friars Road closed for construction near Interstate 5. Krugh said he had not been identified but appeared to be in his 20s.