An Orange County deputy sheriff fatally shot a “schizophrenic” man who tried to stab him Saturday afternoon just hours after another deputy shot and injured a man attacking him outside a discount store, according to Sheriff John Mina.

Around 3:30 p.m. deputies responded to a house in the 200 block of North Ortman Drive regarding a 911 call about a “schizophrenic man who was reportedly not taking his medication and acting erratically … breaking plates in the street,” Mina said during a news conference a few hours after the incident.

When deputies arrived they met with the man’s father, who was “very calm,” and he told them his adult son was in the bedroom with a knife, he said. Mina did not provide any personal details about the man who was killed.

“Our deputies were in the hallway for

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