No charges for California police who fatally shot Guatemalan
SAN FRANCISCO — Two San Francisco police detectives will not face criminal charges for shooting and killing a young Guatemalan immigrant armed with a knife two years ago, prosecutors said Wednesday.
The plainclothes detectives feared for their lives and shot in self-defence after scuffling with Amilcar Perez-Lopez, 21, who lunged at one of them with a 12-inch knife, the San Francisco district attorney said in a report .
Detectives Eric Reboli and Craig Tiffe were in an unmarked police car when they responded on Feb. 26, 2015 to a report of a man chasing another man with a knife.
Reboli detained the man getting chased and Tiffe grabbed Perez-Lopez, who was standing on a sidewalk, according to the report.