Officers were responding to a report of an armed man near the Fruitvale BART station . Police tried Tasering the man twice , but were unable to subdue him . The man turned on them with a knife , and police opened fire . The incident comes more than a week after a former BART police officer was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the 2009 shooting death of an unarmed black man on a train platform at the Fruitvale station . A witness said he saw two officers shoot at least one person in front of him.
Officers were responding to a report of an armed man near the Fruitvale BART station . Police tried Tasering the man twice , but were unable to subdue him . The man turned on them with a knife , and police opened fire . A witness said he saw two officers shoot at least one person in front of him.