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The Metropolitan Police Department held a news briefing on Monday about an incident last week where a police officer shot and killed a man found stabbing a woman outside a Las Vegas apartment complex. Assistant Sheriff Brett Zimmerman was to provide additional details on the deadly encounter.

Officers received multiple reports that a man had pinned a woman to the ground and was stabbing her at the complex on the 5300 block of East Tropicana Avenue on Wednesday night, police said. Police Sgt. Daniella Cino responded to the call and saw the man, later identified as 30-year-old William Fuller, attacking the woman.

Fuller stood up and charged Cino while holding a knife after she ordered him to drop it several times, police said. Chino fired two shots, hitting Fuller both times. Fuller was taken to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, where he later died.