Cambridge Officer Shoots, Kills Man Seen With Kukri Knife

CAMBRIDGE, MA — The Middlesex County District Attorney is investigating a fatal police shooting that happened Wednesday afternoon in the Cambridgeport area involving a man with a knife.

Police responded to the neighborhood around 1:15 p.m. after a local resident called 911 to report a man who had jumped out the window of an apartment building while holding a knife.

When paramedics arrived, they found Sayed Faisal, 20 of Cambridge, in an alley behind a building along Sidney Street bleeding and holding a knife. Faisal fled from the paramedics and police.

Police followed Faisal to Chestnut Street and ordered him to put down the weapon, later identified as a kukuri knife.

Cambridge police claim Faisal began moving toward them. One officer used a non-lethal sponge projectile to try to stop Faisal. Police claim the round didn't work, leading to an officer firing a shot at Faisal. He later died at Mass General, according to Middlesex DA Marian Ryan.

Ryan said investigators are "in the early stages" of determining what led to the fatal shooting.