Friday, Feb. 18, 2011 | 11:13 a.m.
Officer-involved shooting
Metro Police identified two officers who shot and killed a man Tuesday night who was armed with a knife and allegedly trying to break into houses in the southeastern valley, police said.
Authorities said officers Juan Guzman, 34, and Michael Henry, 40, shot Tory Manvilla, 49, after police responded to several 911 calls from the 4700 block of Fairfax Avenue, near Mountain Vista Street and Hacienda Avenue, about 8:45 p.m. regarding a man attempting to break into homes.
Police Lt. Lew Roberts said police were directed to a home where residents called 911 and reported a man in his 40s had entered illegally. Officers found the man barricaded in a bathroom, police said.
Roberts said the man wouldn't comply with officers' orders and he aggressively exited the bathroom armed with a knife. Two officers shot Manvilla, who was taken to Sunrise Hospital and died.
Guzman has been with Metro since February 2009 and Henry has been with Metro since February 2004. Both are assigned to the Patrol Division, Southeast Area Command, and have been placed on paid administrative leave, which is standard in cases of officer-involved shootings.
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