Police Kill Man After He Stabs Officer in Arm

EL MONTE —  Police shot and killed a man who threatened suicide and then stabbed a police sergeant in the arm, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department.

The dead man, Daniel Rily called 911, sounding “incoherent and irrational,” just before 2 a.m. Monday, drawing police to his house in the 12100 block of Magnolia Street, said sheriff’s Deputy Boris Nikolof.

Officers found Rily in the frontyard holding a large wooden stick and ordered him to drop it. He refused and ran into the house, Nikolof said.

As police waited outside, one El Monte officer called Rily on the phone, urging him to give up. Rily told the officer he was suicidal and that his 85-year-old mother was in the house with him, Nikolof said.

Worried that he might hurt himself or his mother, police entered Rily’s home and found him in the dining room with a self-inflicted neck wound, holding a knife. Rily threatened to kill himself and the officers, refusing orders to drop the knife, Nikolof said.

El Monte police shot Rily twice with a beanbag gun, but the man was unaffected, Nikolof said.

Rily lunged toward the officers, stabbing El Monte Police Sgt. Brian Dahl, 55, in the arm, police said. One officer fired his handgun at Rily’s chest. Rily continued to lunge toward the officers and two more beanbag rounds were fired, Nikolof said.

Rily was taken to County-USC Medical Center, where he died. Dahl, a 27-year El Monte police veteran, was treated for his wounds at a local hospital and released, Nikolof said.

Sheriff’s detectives are assisting El Monte police in the investigation.