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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Police shot and killed a man on a West Philadelphia street Monday afternoon after yelling at him to drop his knife.
It happened around 3:50 p.m. when officers responded to a domestic call along the 6100 block of Locust Street.
Sgt. Eric Gripp, a spokesperson with the Philadelphia Police Department, says officers confronted a man with a knife at the scene. Gripp said the man was shot multiple times by two officers after he didn't adhere to calls to drop the weapon. He was later pronounced dead.
Neighbors have identified the man as Walter Wallace.
Video of the fatal confrontation recorded by a bystander and posted on social media shows officers pointing their guns at a man as he walked in the street and around a car. The man walks toward the officers as they backed away from him in the street, guns still aimed at him.
"Put the knife down, put the knife down," one officer can be heard saying.
Both then fired several shots at the man and he collapsed in the street. A woman ran up to the victim and began screaming. Several bystanders then walk up to the man who was shot.
It is unclear in the video if the man had a knife. Witnesses said he was holding one.
At least a dozen evidence markers were found at the scene. Witnesses and neighbors want to know why less-lethal force wasn't used.
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