A men­tal­ly ill man was shot and killed by po­lice on Mon­day evening, af­ter he al­leged­ly at­tacked an of­fi­cer with a knife.

Po­lice re­port­ed that around 6.40 pm, Con­sta­ble Noel and oth­er of­fi­cers at­tached to the San Juan Po­lice Sta­tion re­spond­ed to a call of a do­mes­tic dis­tur­bance at the cor­ner of Con­cord and Sad­dle Road, San Juan.

Po­lice said res­i­dents at the lo­ca­tion were be­ing ha­rassed by the man, who was lat­er iden­ti­fied as Abra­ham Hack­ette. Res­i­dents re­port­ed­ly called the po­lice, not­ing that Hack­ette was an out­pa­tient of the St Ann’s Psy­chi­atric Hos­pi­tal.

When the of­fi­cers ar­rived, they met a knife-wield­ing Hack­ette, who po­lice said was home­less but had a last known ad­dress at Far­roe Ter­race, San Juan.

Po­lice said the 36-year-old re­fused to obey or­ders to drop the weapon and in­stead at­tacked the of­fi­cers and stabbed Noel in the left and up­per right arms. He was shot and lat­er tak­en to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, Mt Hope, where he was de­clared dead on ar­rival.

Con­sta­ble Noel is ex­pect­ed to un­der­go surgery next week for the in­juries sus­tained.

In­spec­tor Ho­sein is con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.