Crime & Safety
Sheriff: Man Threatened Lafayette Cops With Knife, Blunt Object
Michael Schock, 28, of Lafayette is arrested on assault with a deadly weapon charge.
Lafayette police were responding to a series of 9-1-1 calls with immediate hangups from a residence on hilly Woodview Drive when they had a violent confrontation with 28-year-old Michael Schock, according to information released Wednesday.
Detectives interviewed Schock at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, where he was hospitalized after being shot by an officer.
A Sheriff's Office news release said Shock came out of 3425 Woodview Drive Tuesday morning, threatened the two Lafayette police officers with a knife and then picked up an unspecified "blunt object and quickly advanced on the officers in a threatening manner." An officer, whose identity has not been released, shot him.
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Schock has been arrested on charges of assault with a deadly weapon, exhibiting a deadly weapon, making criminal threats and obstructing an executive officer. He remains in John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek.
By terms of Contra Costa County's officer-involved shooting protocol, the investigation is by Lafayette police, the District Attorney's Office and the Office of the Sheriff.
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