Authorities have identified a man who was shot, and killed in a confrontation with Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s deputies.
Deputies were called to the North La Cumbre Road area, just outside of Santa Barbara’s city limits at about 6:30 Sunday night by a family member of a man believed to be under the influence of drugs. They couldn’t find the man, but started receiving multiple 911 calls of someone invading people’s backyards and homes.
Then, just before nine, deputies received a call from a resident on the 900 block of Russell Way that someone might be in their house. Deputies say they arrived to find Bryan Carreno in the home, armed with a knife. The officers retreated outside.
They say after the 26 year old Santa Barbara man refused orders to drop the knife and followed them outside, they opened fire, fatally wounding him. No one else was hurt. An autopsy is pending.