A man wielding a baseball bat was shot a deadd by police in a California Walmart on Saturday, after he reportedly began threatening officers and swinging the weapon towards them in a suspected incident of suicide by cop.

Officers from the San Leandro Police Department responded to a disturbance at the Walmart on Hesperian Boulevard at 3pm yesterday afternoon to accounts of a man attempting to rob the store.

Upon their arrival, police determined there was no robbery but found the suspect menacingly brandishing a baseball bat at the store’s entrance, threatening staff and telling passers-by he ‘wanted to die’.

The attending officers approached the man and ordered him to drop the bat, however the suspect refused to comply and began walking towards the them, swinging the weapon.

Officers from the San Leandro Police Department responded to a disturbance at the Walmart on Hesperian Boulevard at 3pm yesterday to find a man menacingly brandishing a baseball bat at the store's entrance

Officers from the San Leandro Police Department responded to a disturbance at the Walmart on Hesperian Boulevard at 3pm yesterday to find a man menacingly brandishing a baseball bat at the store’s entrance

The attending officers approached the man and ordered him to drop the bat, however the suspect refused to comply and began walking towards the officers, swinging the weapon

The attending officers approached the man and ordered him to drop the bat, however the suspect refused to comply and began walking towards the officers, swinging the weapon

The attending officers approached the man and ordered him to drop the bat, however the suspect refused to comply and began walking towards the officers, swinging the weapon

Part of the encounter was caught on video by one shopper. The 60-second clip shows the suspect, who is a black male, brandishing the bat as two San Leandro officers stand with their guns drawn near the store’s shopping cart storage bay.

‘Get back! Get back!’ the officers yell several times, as a customer in the background also urges the man to ‘Put it down! Put it down!’

One of the officers then fires his Taser at the suspect, to little avail. The man staggers back momentarily before advancing towards the officers once again.

When the man is about five feet from the lead officer, he fires his service weapon, striking the man in the chest.

The man takes several labored steps backward, drops the bat, and the collapses on the floor bleeding as horrified shoppers watch on just feet away. ‘Don’t shoot him no more,’ calls out one shopper. ‘Call an ambulance,’ yells another.

In statement, San Leandro police said the two officers administered CPR on the man until paramedics could arrive. Despite their efforts, the man died from his injuries at the scene.

The man has not yet been identified by investigators. Police say they had not been able to find out the dead man’s name or city of residence as of late Saturday.

When the man is about five feet from the lead officer, he fires his service weapon, striking the man in the chest

When the man is about five feet from the lead officer, he fires his service weapon, striking the man in the chest

 When the man is about five feet from the lead officer, he fires his service weapon, striking the man in the chest

The man takes several labored steps backward, drops the bat, and the collapses on the floor bleeding as horrified shoppers watch on just feet away

The man takes several labored steps backward, drops the bat, and the collapses on the floor bleeding as horrified shoppers watch on just feet away

The man takes several labored steps backward, drops the bat, and the collapses on the floor bleeding as horrified shoppers watch on just feet away

In statement, San Leandro police said the two officers administered CPR on the man until paramedics could arrive. Despite their efforts, the man died from his injuries at the scene

In statement, San Leandro police said the two officers administered CPR on the man until paramedics could arrive. Despite their efforts, the man died from his injuries at the scene

In statement, San Leandro police said the two officers administered CPR on the man until paramedics could arrive. Despite their efforts, the man died from his injuries at the scene

Lt. Ted Henderson told Mercury News that a full investigation is being carried out by the department, though the probe is still very much ‘in the early stages.’

‘The officers were in danger,’ Henderson added.

The two officers involved in the incident were not identified by Henderson. The officer who fired the fatal shot, a 20-year veteran of the force, has been placed on paid administrative leave in accordance with the department’s policy on officer-involved shootings’.

Though the police are yet to disclose the motives behind the man’s actions, Instagram user, Mike_Myke, who said he was just ‘feet away’ when the shooting occurred, said the man was determined to end of life, alluding to an apparent incident of suicide by cop.

The man has not yet been identified by investigators. Police say they had not been able to find out the dead man’s name or city of residence as of late Saturday

The man has not yet been identified by investigators. Police say they had not been able to find out the dead man’s name or city of residence as of late Saturday

The man has not yet been identified by investigators. Police say they had not been able to find out the dead man’s name or city of residence as of late Saturday

Though the police are yet to disclose the motives behind the man's actions, Instagram user, Mike_Myke, who said he was just 'feet away' when the shooting occurred, said the man was determined to end of life, alluding to an apparent incident of suicide by cop

Though the police are yet to disclose the motives behind the man's actions, Instagram user, Mike_Myke, who said he was just 'feet away' when the shooting occurred, said the man was determined to end of life, alluding to an apparent incident of suicide by cop

Though the police are yet to disclose the motives behind the man’s actions, Instagram user, Mike_Myke, who said he was just ‘feet away’ when the shooting occurred, said the man was determined to end of life, alluding to an apparent incident of suicide by cop

‘This dude was saying he wanted to die before the police even arrived. He waited for the police to get here while he was swinging a bat. He was threatening to kill the door greeter,’ Mike wrote in a since deleted Instagram post. ‘People offered to help him and he refused. He was saying everybody was living his life and he didn’t care anymore.’

Mike said when police arrived the man instantly started attacking the officers and refused to comply with their repeated demands to drop the bat.

‘I’m not justifying his death, but this wasn’t a black on white hate crime that they gon make it out to be,’ Mike, who is African-American, wrote. ‘My condolences to his family, but this was wild. Like I said, I was right behind the officer. I even tried talking to this dude before the officers arrived. This is a lose-lose situation. My cousin was shot in his sleep by (Oakland Police Department), so I know the feeling and the hate toward the police. This ain’t the same situation.’

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