Man holding two knives is fatally shot in food store

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office released new details on Thursday into the fatal police shooting of a man armed with two knives inside a grocery store last week.

- BY RUBEN VIVES

The incident occurred at 2:39 p.m. on Oct. 20 in the 5100 block of Hollister Avenue after two sheriff’s deputies responded to a call of an assault with a deadly weapon. The arriving deputies learned that a man had attacked a dog and stabbed the dog’s owner before fleeing inside a Ralphs grocery store, where he barricaded himself in a public bathroom, according to a department statement.

The department identified the suspect as Abdou Rhamn Nyan, 34, of Connecticut.