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Footage released on Friday shows the terror that unfolded in the streets of Woodland Hills and Calabasas when a homeless man first attacked someone with a machete and then ran into a popular restaurant where he was fatally shot by police.

The incident took place on Nov. 1 when 911 dispatchers received a call from a man who said he had been attacked by another man with a machete at the McDonald’s at Mulholland Drive near the 101 Freeway.

“I was able to get away from him, and then he kept attacking me,” the victim told the 911 dispatcher.

“We need to get in control of these homeless people,” he added. The man said he was not seriously hurt and did not require a paramedic.

His attacker, later identified as Benjamin Pritchard, 35, had dropped the machete and was wandering through the parking lot of the busy shopping center when police arrived.