Deputies said they shot the man after he carjacked a man nearby after he allegedly threatened people at the shopping center with a machete.
Ventura County deputies shot a man accused of threatening people with a machete at a Thousand Oaks shopping mall earlier this week.It happened just before 6:30 a.m. on Oct. 24, when deputies were called out to the Ventu Park Shopping Center. The department had received calls that a man was walking around, threatening people with a machete. When deputies got there, they found the man and tried to detain him, the sheriff's office said.
SUGGESTED: Inglewood homeowner confronts machete-wielding man who broke into his carAfter investigating, deputies discovered that the same man was allegedly responsible for other crimes nearby earlier that morning.Investigators said that before the scene at the shopping center, the same man used the machete to break a window at the Palm Garden Hotel, before walking to the 76 Gas Station nearby. There, deputies said the man attacked another man before stealing his car.
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