Police say officers opened fire after verbal warnings ignored and pepper spray proved ineffective
Three Hong Kong police officers fired five shots at a man, suspected to be mentally ill, who charged at them with a serrated knife and a metal rod in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Senior Superintendent Iu Wing-kan said that police received a report at 12.17am of a man behaving abnormally and carrying weapons as he wandered around Tsuen Wan MTR station.
Another report came in at 12.44am of the armed man on Cheung Wing Road in Kwai Chung.
Officers were dispatched to both locations, but found no sign of the suspect.
The force was alerted by several drivers at around 1am that the man was on the Kwai Chung section of the Castle Peak Road and brandishing a serrated knife and a metal rod.
When members of police’s emergency unit arrived at the scene to search for him, the man suddenly jumped out of the bushes and charged at the officers.
Source: News - South China Morning Post
