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>The statement said police first attempted to use non-lethal ammunition to stop Faisal but that he continued to move toward officers with the weapon.
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>An investigation into the shooting conducted by the district attorney’s office, Massachusetts State Police detectives assigned to the office and the Cambridge Police Department is in its early stages, officials said.
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>Officials said police and paramedics were first dispatched Wednesday around 1:15 p.m. to the Cambridgesport neighborhood after a 911 caller reported a man had lept from the window of an apartment building holding a machete. The caller said the man was sitting in a courtyard outside the building, cutting himself with both glass from the window he broke and the weapon, which police later identified as a kukri knife — a short sword with a curved blade, about 10 to 12 inches in length, Ryan said.
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>Police found Faisal bleeding in an alley behind a building on Sidney Street. According to the statement from Ryan and Elow, he ran from police for several blocks through Cambridgesport before he encountered officers again on Chestnut Street. When police asked that he drop the knife, Faisal ran toward officers, the officials said.
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>An officer shot Faisal with a non-lethal “sponge round,” which did not stop him, Ryan said. As he continued approaching the police, “holding the knife at one point across his body, and then holding it raised out in front of him,” an officer shot Faisal with a department-issued gun, she said.
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>Faisal received first aid at the scene by police until EMS services arrived. He was rushed to Massachusetts General Hospital, where he later died, Ryan and Elow said.
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>In their statement, they asked members of the public with information or video of the incident to contact Cambridge police.
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>The officer who shot Faisal had about seven to eight years of experience on the Cambridge police force. He has since been placed on paid administrative leave, in accordance with department policy, Ryan said.
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>She declined to say how many times Faisal was shot when asked by reporters at the press conference Wednesday, indicating instead that the information would come following an examination of the man’s body by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
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>Elow said officers are “extensively” trained in mental health responses, de-escalation, use-of-force and crisis intervention. She said the officers “tried several times to engage [Faisal] verbally” before shooting him.
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>“This lasted over five blocks from where we first encountered him,” Elow said. “We tried several times to de-escalate the situation.” The encounter between Faisal and police lasted more than 12 minutes, Ryan said.
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>Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui and City Manager Yi-An Huang, in a joint statement, said they were “deeply saddened” by Wednesday’s shooting. They offered condolences to Faisal’s family and loved ones and pledged that the city and police would assist in a “thorough and transparent investigation” into what occurred.

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