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One man was shot to death by Napa police officers Monday evening outside of Home Depot, but it is not immediately clear what led to the incident.

Chief Steve Potter said dispatchers received multiple calls of a man with a knife acting “high" or "crazy” outside the store at 6:21 p.m.

When officers arrived a brief time later, they found the man a short distance north of Home Depot. At some point thereafter, two officers discharged their weapons and the man was pronounced dead at the scene.

Potter did not have any immediate details on what happened between the officers and the man in the moments after they arrived. He said it was not clear yet if there was any video footage of the incident from either bodycams or dashboard cameras in patrol cars.

The dead man’s name, age, or other information was not available. The names of the two officers involved will be released in a day or two, he said.

Napa resident Horacio Ramirez said he saw the end of the incident as he left from the nearby Black Bear Diner. He said two or three officers were approaching them man from two sides, yelling for him to lie down on the ground. Then three or four shots rang out.

Ramirez said he was too far away to see whether the man was armed at the time.