The shocking cause of death for the California-based food influencer Michael Duarte has been revealed more than a month after he was shot and killed by a Texas sheriff’s deputy .

Duarte — known online as FoodWithBearHands — died from a gunshot wound, and his death was officially ruled a homicide, a spokesperson for the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office told People on Wednesday.

The full autopsy report remains pending, the spokesperson said.

The 39-year-old was killed on the afternoon of Nov. 8 after first responders rushed to a 911 call about a “male subject with a knife acting erratically” in Castroville — a city located about 25 miles outside San Antonio.

When deputies arrived, Duarte had already been making threats to “kill everyone,” and the situation rapidly escalated fro

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